What is recorded here

Barrow is a ring-barrow in County Cork, Ireland, occupying wet ground on a north-facing slope. A shallow fosse still marks part of its boundary, while a hollow cuts the northwest quadrant, suggesting the circle resisted full erasure despite age and disturbance. Bowman may have seen a levelled fort in the same land, reminding us that barrows and forts blur when human hands keep reshaping them.

In wet ground, on N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (24m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by fosse (D 0.3m) NE->W; fosse disturbed elsewhere. N-S hollow in NW quadrant. Possibly levelled fort referred to by Bowman (1934, 450) in J. O'Callaghan's land. 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

A ring-barrow, likely Bronze Age; its association with a possible early fort suggests a multifunctional landscape of burial and defence.

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