Enclosure in Carrigaline Middle — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

No visible enclosure exists on the open ground, yet the buried curve still marks the boundary of a lost field. Whether the fosse kept livestock, people or simply pride is no longer possible to prove. The rath cut through it later, treating the older line as nothing more than soil to displace.

This enclosure (37.5m x 31m), which is defined by a fosse, predates and is truncated by a rath (CO087-030----) and was identified during a geophysical survey prior to pre-development archaeological testing on a large housing development named Herons Wood at Carrigaline Middle (Sherlock 2002; 2004, 62-3). Only the W arc of the fosse (L c. 30m) which lay outside the rath at W was excavated. The sides of the fosse (Wth 1.6m; D 0.9m) sloped regularly to a flat base (Wth 0.3-0.4m) and it was filled with a stony silty clay. No archaeological features were noted in the W portion of the interior, which was excavated. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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