Designed landscape feature in Ardrum — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

An 11.2m circular cattle shelter stood beside a standing stone in the Ardrum House demesne, its low earthen bank enclosing a flat grass tray where beasts may have waited out Cork rain. Hartnett doubted its purpose in 1939 because similar trays dotted local estates, yet the deliberate circle and neighbouring stone suggest people shaped the landscape as much as they lived in it. The woodland cleared and the ground levelled around 1984, erasing the tray but leaving the stone and the memory of a designed place that once ordered both animals and appearance.

In deciduous woodland. Shown as small circular mound on 1939 OS 6-inch map, immediately W of standing stone (CO073-007002-), in demesne of Ardrum House (CO073-009----). Flat circular area (diam. 11.2m) enclosed by low earthen bank (H 0.6m). Recorded by Hartnett (1939, 224), who was doubtful as to its nature and noted that such structures are common in demenses in the district as shelters for cattle. Woodland cleared c. 1984 and site levelled. Similar feature (CO073-006----) c. 150m to NW. 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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