What is recorded here
No visible wall on the west or north sides. The earth itself has become the boundary. What is missing is not a gap in knowledge but a change in form. The fort has stopped being a fort and become a quality of the field. It is larger now. It is also harder to see. That is not defeat. That is growth.
In pasture, on break in S-facing slope. Oval area (34.5m N-S; 44.5m E-W) defined by low rise (max. H 0.8m) E->NNE; shallow external fosse (D 0.5m). Stone wall atop line of bank NNE->E. Causeway crosses fosse to E (Wth 12m).
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
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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