What is recorded here

Fifty years before 1917, three earthen rings still stood on the Blossomgrove slope, but human hands or hunger removed them until none remained. The land keeps a ghost of the largest, marking its forty-metre circle through crop growth and scattered stone. What looked like fairy work may have been neighbourly greed, stripping useful wall material for new buildings while forgetting the shape beneath.

On N-facing slope. Shown as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as slight curve in NE-SW field fence on 1904 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; stone spread and cropmark indicate position of site. According to Power (1917, 23), 'up to fifty years ago there were three raths on the townland, but not one now survives'. 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

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