Enclosure in Kilbarry (duhallow By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Kilbarry enclosure held a single rampart forty-one yards wide on Mr Power's land until local residents levelled the fort in the early 1980s. Bowman measured about four feet of bank standing in 1934, and the field fence may have traced the lost curve for another fifty years. The fort disappeared into ordinary tillage, leaving only a kink in the boundary and a warning about how quickly memory yields to the plough.

In tillage, on gentle S-facing slope, just N of deeply cut stream valley. According to local information, 'fort' levelled early 1980s. Probably located in E half of roughly semicircular field (c. 80m E-W; projecting c. 50m to S) indicated on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; curve of field fence E->S in E corner of field and kink in linear field fence to N may have skirted or incorporated bank of fort. No visible surface trace; field boundaries levelled. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 419-20) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 41yd), situated in a glen, on Mr Power's land; 'about half the circuit stands' (H c. 4ft); possible church at centre (14489). Site of horizontal water-mill (14058) a short distance to W. Possible burial ground (14175) in adjoining field to NW. 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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