What is recorded here

Carrigcleena More lost a small round fort to quarrying, but the earth kept its shape long enough for Berry to walk the rampart and Bowman to measure thirty-five yards of levelled bank. The site sat beside a rude elevation of huge rocks, and local tradition claims a hidden passage links the two, as if the stone and soil still speak across the gap. What remains is a absence with edges: a circular wound in the land where a household once stood, named for the rock that watched it.

Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, c. 150m to NW of 'Carrigcleena' rock. Named 'Lisheenacarriga, little fort of the rock' in OS Field Books (Berry 1905, 33). Destroyed by quarrying. Described by Berry (ibid.) as a 'lisheen, or small round lios'. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 569) as a levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 35yd) on R. Barrett's land. Man-made underground passage (CO041-10602-) in interior. Carrigcleena, 'a wild and romantic spot...a rude elevation, surrounded by a rampart of huge rocks, towering over the country round, and enclosing about two acres of very green ground', is said locally to have a passage leading from it to the fort (Berry 1905, 33). 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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