What is recorded here

Cloghboola holds a broken earthen ring on a gentle slope above a steep fall, marking a place where people once drew a clear boundary between inside and outside. Bowman recorded double ramparts in 1934, but the outer line has vanished, leaving only a saucer-shaped hollow, exposed stones, and a buried limekiln funnel. The fort has become a dump for tree stumps and a boundary for ordinary fields, yet its remaining bank still traces the shape of a lived world.

In pasture, on gentle NW-facing slope, just below top of hill and above steep fall in slope. Circular area (25.3m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.8m); external fosse (D 0.4m) SW->NE. Outer face of bank denuded to NE exposing stones which may have formed stone facing. Grass-covered remains of funnel of limekiln (CO015-095002-) in bank to E. Bank disturbed by field boundary to S; topped by pump-house to SSE; cut into to SSW. Break (Wth 1.65m) in bank to SW. Interior used as dump for tree stumps; appears to be saucer shaped. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 387) as double-ramparted fort on Mr Lyons's land; 'the outer rampart has been levelled'. 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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