What is recorded here

Gortnascreeny holds a sixty-metre stone-faced ridge beside its ringfort, waiting for human hands to remember what it excluded or protected. Conifers crowd the ancient line today, yet the ridge still breaks the pasture like a forgotten boundary.

Pasture, S-facing slope. Linear earthwork (L N-S 60m; H 1.7m) to SE of ringfort (CO119-045001-); stone-faced and higher at S end; planted with conifers. Indicated as raised rectangle on OS 6-inch map (1842). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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