What is recorded here

In pasture, on N-facing slope, c. 0.5km S of River Blackwater. Depicted as hachured roughly rectangular enclosure (c. 70m N-S x c. 55m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with S side curving outwards; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 60m) on 1935 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (62m N-S; 61m E-W) defined by slight scarp and shallow external depression. Interior slopes gently down to N. Cropmark of bank and external fosse of ovoid enclosure visible in aerial photograph (CUCAP; BDS 7). 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

A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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