What is recorded here
Aghaneenagh is a lost Irish ringfort. Men erased it around 1982, perhaps to widen pasture or kill the fairy tale. A slight rise remains on the south-facing slope, small enough to walk across but heavy enough to remember. The hawthorn is gone, the circular earth is gone, and the forgetters went home thinking they had improved the land.
In pasture, on S-facing slope. According to local information, small circular rise (diam. c. 3ft) and hawthorn bush marking site of ringfort were removed c. 1982. Slight rise remains.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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