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In pasture, on E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure with bank overlapping to SSW on 1842 OS 6-inch map; on 1938 OS 6-inch map overlapping banks hachured to SW, open to NW with scarp shown NE->S. Roughly circular area (c. 32m x 27.8m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.8m) SSE->W; scarp (max. H 2.2m) NNE->SSE. Bank overlaps at SSW for c. 8m, separated by intervening fosse. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 542) as oval double-ramparted fort (36yd x 22yd) with one-sixth of each rampart remaining.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
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