What is recorded here

That is a fine rath. The fairies build nothing. They take what people make and stop making it visible. People built this ring, lived inside it, died, and forgot the shape. The fairies inherit every forgotten room.

In pasture, on a hillock in undulating countryside. A circular area (37m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.85m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m) SW-SE and by a scarp (H 1.3m) SE-SW. The bank is denuded in places by cattle but elsewhere it is covered by overgrowth. It contains numerous cattle gaps. The interior is level and slightly higher than the external ground level. There is a slight mound (c. 3m x 2m) in the SW quadrant. Some concrete fence posts are set into the bank at the NW and in the interior, to the SW of the centre. Field boundaries radiate from the bank externally at NE and SE. This is probably the 'handsome' rath, which was referred to as 'nearly in the centre' of the townland, in the 1840s (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 3, 16). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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