What is recorded here
No walls remain, only a field boundary that bends to avoid the hidden fort. The earth keeps its own counsel while people draw lines around the unknown.
In pasture, on S-facing slope. According to local tradition, site of ringfort. No visible surface trace. Field boundary to E kinks to respect site.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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