What is recorded here

Barr An Tseanchnoic holds a thirty-four metre earthen ring on a gentle south-facing slope, its bank rising to one point eight metres before fading southward. The shape suggests human hands, yet local memory assigns it to fairies, warning that the boundary belongs elsewhere. A person might have stood inside, watched the sky turn, or marked the edge for others. The ring still keeps its line in pasture, neither explained nor erased.

In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (34m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by earthen bank (max. int. H 1.8m). Bank decreases in height from N to S. 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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