What is recorded here

Curraghnalaght holds a ghost road, not paved but dug, marking the exact moment human hands first cut through wild ground. Two parallel ditches run one hundred and thirty metres from a levelled ringfort toward a modern highway that severed the path rather than following it. The land remembers the shape of that choice. People walked there before wheels, before written laws, before the county existed. They knew the distance between enclosures because their bodies repeated it. The road builders arrived later and struck through the line without asking what it meant.

Cropmark in tillage (CASAP) shows linear feature defined by two closely spaced parallel fosses, possibly indicating a trackway. Feature visible running in roughly SW-NE direction for c. 130m from levelled ringfort (8233) and truncated by a road at NE end. Subcircular enclosure (9129) lies c. 60m to NW and second enclosure (9130) c. 200m 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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