What is recorded here

Thirty metres across and half-hidden under beech trees, the fort has watched Altamira House since before the house had a name. Its thin earthen wall still stands beside a shallow ditch, broken only by a narrow gap where someone once walked in or fled out. The land has not forgotten the shape; it has simply stopped explaining itself.

In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope, c. 250m to NE of Altamira House. Circular area (c. 45.3m NW-SE) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m), with external fosse (D 1.3m). Bank planted with beech trees; gap (Wth 0.6m) in bank to ESE. Earthen bank cuts diagonally through fosse to N. Fosse infilled to SE where roadway runs outside it. Interior overgrown with briars. 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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