What is recorded here

Half a kilometre north of the Tooraleagan River, a broken ring of earth still marks the fort where human hands first shaped the land. Cattle may walk across it now, but the boundary between counties and townlands has followed that ancient line ever since. The fairies kept what people forgot, and the field edges still obey the shape of their refusal.

In pasture 400m N of the Tooraleagan River that marks the townland boundary with Sraharla and the County boundary with Cork. Annotated ‘Bawnlougha Fort’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a rectangular-shaped enclosure. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sub-rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 30m N-S; 28mE-W) defined by a scarp from E-S-W incorporated into a field boundary elsewhere. Truncated at N by field boundary running NE-SW and at NE by field boundary running NW-SE. Outline of roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 28m) enclosed by poorly preserved bank and fosse visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages where it is truncated at E by a field boundary running NW-SE. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 20 November 2021

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