What is recorded here

Earthwork in Broghill North is a roughly square, grass-covered enclosure in County Cork pasture, with a shallow fosse and a second low bank curving around three sides. A stream still runs in the western fosse before turning east, suggesting water helped shape or maintain the boundary. The rounded corners and dual banks imply deliberate construction rather than natural drift, possibly marking a residence, farmstead or ritual boundary. A ringfort sits nearby in the same field, hinting the area supported more than one kind of human presence.

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Roughly square area (33m E-W; 30m N-S) with rounded corners, defined by low, grass-covered earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.4m); shallow intervening fosse; second low, grass-covered earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.35m) to S, W and N. Stream flowing in fosse on W side, continues N for short distance before turning E to run N of second bank and S of field boundary. Second bank survives as low rise on N and S sides, more substantial to W; on S side it extends beyond site for c. 13.4m where it then curves back towards centre of E bank, stopping short of external fosse. Third linear earthen bank exists outside this curving second bank on E side running NNE-SSW, with remains of external fosse (D 0.8m). Fosse outside second bank on S side extends beyond enclosure to E and W. Interior grass-covered; W half at slightly lower level than E half. Area of second bank disturbed to NE and NW leaving no trace of second bank. Ringfort (12227) a short distance to E in same field. 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

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