What is recorded here

Thirty-five metres of forgotten wall still leans across Clonrobin pasture, its western edge rising seventy-five centimetres above the grass while the rest has surrendered to hoof and rain. Bowman measured forty-three yards of surviving rampart in 1934, but even that sturdy rectangle has softened into a shallow ridge that disappears when mist rolls down the north-facing slope. The land remembers more than the survey captured, holding the shape of hands that built it and lives that moved through it before enclosure became a word instead of a wound.

Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, on N-facing slope. Levelled; roughly rectangular area defined by earthen field boundary (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.75m) at W corner and NW side (L 29.8m), slight rise elsewhere (max. H 0.2m). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 413) as rectangular fort (43yd by 25yd) on Mr Clifford's land; 'all of the western rampart, and 10 yards of the North and South ramparts now stand.' Ringfort (12309) c. 100m to S. 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

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