Ecclesiastical enclosure in Killarush

In pasture, on S-facing slope. D-shaped enclosure (70m NNE-SSW; projecting c. 100m to E) defined by linear field boundary (NNE-SSW) to W and to N, curved earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) NE->SW, open elsewhere; external fosse (D 1m) E->SW. Break in bank to SE (Wth 3.2m). Inner face of bank survives as gentle slope from interior to top of bank. Interior level. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 210) as double-ramparted D-shaped fort on P. J. O'Callaghan's land; 'about two-thirds of the outer, and practically all the inner ramparts are levelled...intervening fosse is c. 14 feet wide'. Lime kiln shown inside bank to SE, on 1842 OS 6-inch map, described as 'disused...on south side of inner rampart' (ibid.). No visible surface trace of lime kiln. According to Bowman (ibid.) church site and burial ground (14121) in interior. 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