What is recorded here

An Ráth Thoir is a circular earthen ringfort in County Cork pasture, measuring thirty-three metres east-west and thirty-one metres north-south. Its bank rises one and a half metres internally, while a two-metre-wide break in the south-southwest suggests a deliberate entrance rather than decay. Cultivation ridges still cross the interior on a northeast-southwest axis, proving the fort was not merely a defensive shell but a working home where soil and strength were shaped together. The fairies may have taken the name, but the earth remembers the hands that built it.

In pasture, at break in NE-facing slope. Circular area (33m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.1m) E->NW with external fosse (D 0.3m); scarp (H 2.6m) elsewhere. Breaks in bank to SSW (Wth 2m) and SW. Interior raised on NE side to compensate for hillslope; crossed by remains of cultivation ridges on NE-SW axis. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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