What is recorded here

Magic and memory collide in this forgotten corner. When facts fail, imagination completes the story. That is the human bridge, not the trap.

In tillage, on E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) on 1842 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 20m) on 1905 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace of site; according to local information, levelled c. 1980. Faint soilmark visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, Jan. 1986) shows arc of N half of enclosure, remainder hidden from view by tree shadows. Circular enclosure (CO033-01102-) immediately to W. See Purcell, A. 2002 'Castlelands, Mallow; Possible ringfort', in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 50. Wordwell Ltd, Bray. See also Excavations 2001, 47-8. 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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