What is recorded here

Half-buried in the broad, low valley beside Trabeg, the fort keeps a circular shape twenty-seven metres across. Earth and rough stone still mark its edge, while field fences cut outward like spokes from a forgotten wheel. People may have lived inside, excluded others, or simply shaped the land for reason now lost. The fairy name suggests humans left the place behind rather than understanding it.

Internal diam. 27m N-S, 25.5m E-W A circular univallate rath situated in the broad, level, low-lying valley that surrounds Trabeg. The earthen enclosing bank is a maximum of 1.8m high. Field fences radiate out from the site at NE and NW and in the N sector between these the bank is revetted on both faces with rough drystone masonry. The inner stone-facing continues as far as the E sector but then disappears. A slight depression outside the bank along the E sector may indicate the presence of a fosse. There is a .5m wide gap at SSE and a mound directly E of this in the interior may be the debris from its formation. The interior also contains other banks or ridges and hollows of unknown origin. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 526. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

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