What is recorded here
No. There is not enough fact below to make a clear answer.
In pasture. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) hachured ENE->SW, indicated by broken line elsewhere. Hachured arc ENE->SW depicted on 1903 and 1940 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Hartnett (1939, 256), fort 'levelled...slight traces of the earthwork remain, showing that the diameter was about 180 feet'.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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