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In pasture, on W-facing slope overlooking Rathcoole River valley to SW. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map, immediately inside N and E field boundaries; hut site indicated at centre. Roughly circular area (22.8m E-W; 19.9m N-S) enclosed by shallow fosse (D 0.5m) NW->SE; scarp (H c. 2.1m) SE->NW. Field boundary respects enclosure to N and E. Scarp quarried into to NW, depression filled with field clearance stones. Circular hut site (diam. c. 7m) at centre, defined by earthen bank (H 0.4m).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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