What is recorded here

Cleanrath holds a levelled earthen ringfort on an NNE-facing slope, its original bank hidden inside a modern field fence. Bowman measured the remaining oval in 1934 and suspected an underground passage, but pasture and time have smoothed most of the shape. The fort still borders the land, quiet under grass and traffic of animals, waiting for someone to walk its vanished edge.

In pasture, on NNE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured roughly oval enclosure (c. 30m NNE-SSW; c. 22m NW-SE) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with E bank incorporated into field fence system. Levelled; arc formed by earthen field boundary (int. H 1.2m) NE->SSE, may incorporate original bank. To NNE, scarp may mark edge of enclosure on this side. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 295) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 33yd) on A. O'Riordan's land; with possible Man-made underground passage (CO030-244---). 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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