Sheepfold, Canrooska, Co. Cork

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Sheepfold, Canrooska, Co. Cork

In the upland townland of Canrooska, in County Cork, a sheepfold has been deemed significant enough to record as a monument.

That alone is worth pausing on. Sheepfolds, the dry-stone or earthen enclosures used to pen, sort, and shelter sheep, are so embedded in the everyday fabric of the Irish landscape that they are rarely given a second glance. The fact that this one has been formally catalogued suggests something sets it apart, whether age, construction, scale, or the simple accident of survival in a legible form.

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