What is recorded here
No visible surface trace remains of the Clonmult ringfort, only a memory of a circular enclosure on a west-facing slope above marshy ground. That absence is not emptiness; it is transformation. The earth reclaimed what hands shaped, pulling the boundary back into itself until even the ditch disappeared. What looked like loss was completion. The fort finished becoming the hill.
On W-facing slope, above marshy ground. Shown as circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1936 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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