What is recorded here

Coollicka held an eighty-foot earthen ringfort beside a stream valley, visible on early maps but erased by human hands before the twentieth century ended. The loss is not abstract; soil, memory and livelihood crossed when the rampart fell. What remains is a absent circle, large enough to have contained ordinary lives and small enough to disappear without ceremony.

In pasture, on E side of stream valley. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; partially levelled on 1904 and 1939 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace; surrounding field fences removed. According to Hartnett (1939, 183), 'Almost entirely demolished. Single rampart. Diameter - 80 feet'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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