What is recorded here

Coolnagour holds a broken earthen ring where human hands shaped the slope before memory faded. The bank still rises a metre high along one edge, though grass and fence have swallowed the rest. It is not a fairy tale, but it is a forgotten room: a circle large enough to keep, exclude, or remember.

In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; hachured as circular raised area (diam. c. 30m), surrounded by second external scarp (diam. c. 45m) topped by field boundary SSE->NW on 1904 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; arc (C 44m) formed by earthen bank (int. H 1m) survives S->N with shallow external fosse (max. D 0.2m). Bank heavily overgrown and incorporated into surrounding field fence system. 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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