What is recorded here
Cloghleafin is a fairy fort, an earthen ringfort that once stood atop a west-facing slope in Marshalstown Parish. The 1842 Ordnance Survey map drew it as a rough circle twenty-five metres wide, but ploughs and time have levelled it into invisible pasture. Whatever lived inside that ring is gone, leaving only a flat field where a whole world might have turned.
In pasture, atop W-facing slope. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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