What is recorded here

Eskraha holds a broken circular wall on a narrow terrace above Bantry Bay, where gorse and briars strangle the stones. A tall slab leans at the east edge like a marker forgotten by time. The northern floor rises slightly, as if someone once built the place level against the slope. People may have gathered there to watch weather come off the bay or to set a boundary between fields and sky.

In pasture, on an E-W terrace on a N-facing slope overlooking Bantry Bay. A circular area (diam. 10.5m) is defined by the remains of a stone wall (T 1.3m; H 0.5m) displaying traces of an inner and outer row of large stones with a fill of smaller stones. A stone slab (H 1.15m; L 0.5m; T 0.4m) narrowing as it rises stands on the external perimeter at E. The wall remains are generally in a jumbled state and are largely covered by gorse, briars and long grass. The interior is also covered by overgrowth, which hides a scatter of rubble from the walls. The N portion of the interior has been raised (H 0.5m) to compensate for the hillslope. There is evidence of field-clearance rubble in a few places inside the perimeter. There is a standing stone (CO138-029002-) c. 10m to the S of the enclosure. 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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