What is recorded here

Half-buried in pasture and bramble, the ringfort keeps its shape like a breath held under water. People quarried its east bank for stone and forgot the name of whoever first lived inside. What remains is a circle of pressure, not a monument. It does not ask to be watched. It waits for the field to stop being useful and remember itself.

In level pasture, within roughly square, overgrown field (c. 40m N-S; c. 38m E-W). Circular raised area (25.5m NW-SE) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m). Area to N and NE impenetrable due to heavy overgrowth; bank here shown as incorporated into NE corner of square field on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Bank and interior quarried into on E side. 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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