What is recorded here

Castlehyde East holds a forty-metre earthen ring where people once drew a clear line between their lives and the wider world. The soil remembers that boundary even when the surface forges it, suggesting the fort still shapes the field around it.

Circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) visible in aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDS 3; 18-07-1970) as cropmark of bank and external fosse. 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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