What is recorded here

Half a kilometre of forgotten wall may still circle a hill in Glenacarney, wide enough to swallow a village square before the field fence and drain cut through it. Bowman heard a fort hidden in the name Cnoc na ratha, yet no stones answered his search. The land kept its shape long after human memory thinned, waiting for an aerial camera to trace what boots had failed to find.

This possible enclosure was referred to in the The 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 424) under the entry (no. 13761) for an enclosure (CO004-054002-). The reference to this feature in the entry reads: 'large roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 100m) identified subsequent to visit in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R658); slightly truncated to S by field fence; W side cut by drain on N-S axis. The larger enclosure may be the 'fort' mentioned by Bowman (1934, 87) as a townland subdivision name, 'Cnoc na ratha - hill of the fort', though no fort was then known on the hill.' 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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