What is recorded here

A worn earthen bank still marks a thirty-metre circle in the pasture east of the Ardnageeha House avenue, its northern gap wide enough for cattle and its interior hidden beneath briars, nettles and long grass. The field has been called Pairc a Leasa, Fort Field, since at least the early twentieth century, and a man-made passage survives in the south-east quadrant. The fort may have stood as a boundary marker, a shelter or a seasonal gathering place before the land became pasture, but its shape still separates human memory from ordinary ground.

In pasture, on break in gentle S-facing slope, E of avenue to Ardnageeha House. Circular area (30m N-S) enclosed by worn, heavily overgrown, earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.8m). Entrance (Wth 3m) to N; numerous cattle gaps in bank. Interior covered in long grass, briars and nettles; Man-made underground passage (CO030-08002-) in SE quadrant. According to Bowman (1934, 287), field known as 'Pairc a Leasa - Fort Field'. 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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