What is recorded here

Half a kilometre of river mud and forgotten labour, the triangular platform in Cloongeel still holds its shape between the living Dalua and its abandoned channel. Local tradition calls it a fort, yet no wall remains to prove the claim. The smallest chamber, barely larger than a sleeping child, waits in the shadow of the wood for someone to remember what it guarded.

In Liscongill Wood, between N bank of River Dalua and S bank of old river channel. Roughly triangular platform (c. 50 NNW-SSE; c. 39m NW-SE; c. 21m NE-SW) composed of river mud. Interior slopes down to NE and pocked with animal burrows; c. 12m NW of S corner and c. 2.5m in from SW side, is roughly rectangular area (5.3m by 3.8m) defined on three sides by low earthen bank (int. H 0.3m) with shallow external depression (D 0.25m). According to local tradition, site of 'fort'. 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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