What is recorded here
In pasture, on SSW-facing slope of Mullaghareirk. Circular area (16.6m E-W) enclosed by low rise (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.5m) NE->NW. Shallow depression (D 0.1m) to E and W may be remains of external fosse. Enclosure quarried into on N side.
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
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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