What is recorded here

Whitethorn still chokes the scarp, marking a twenty-one metre arc where human hands once cut a shallow fosse into the Cork slope. The fort has surrendered most of its shape to tillage and time, leaving only a gentle interior decline and a ridge the land remembers rather than a wall it can prove. It is the kind of place where ordinary farming erased a boundary, yet the vegetation still repeats the old line like a habit learned before anyone lived there.

In tillage, on SE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured arc indicating bank S->W on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Arc (C 21m), S->WNW, formed by scarp (H 1.05m) with external fosse (D 0.25m). Gentle slope down from top of scarp towards interior. Scarp planted with whitethorn; locally known as fort. 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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