What is recorded here

Caherurlagh holds a worn earthen ring twenty-two metres wide atop a rough grazing ridge, marking one of West Cork’s oldest human claims to the land. The bank stands less than a metre high now, yet it still draws a circle around a rock outcrop and uneven ground where people once lived, buried, or played at the edge of the known world. A holed stone sits outside the eastern edge, waiting to be explained.

In rough grazing, atop E-W ridge broken by rock outcrop. Circular area (diam. 22m E-W) enclosed by worn earthen bank (H 0.7m) SW->NNW and NNE->ENE. Interior surface uneven; rock outcrop in SE quadrant. Holed stone (CO138-002002-) immediately outside E bank. (Weir 1980, 113). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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.