What is recorded here

Cooley Fort is a ruined earthen ring in Coolykeerane where farming cut through ancient walls. Cattle walk inside what may have been a home, a hideout or a marked boundary for people long gone. The road took the north side and the fields took the rest, but the surviving arc still shows the shape of human pride.

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured arc S->W on 1904 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps, with portion of SE quadrant indicated in field boundary system; N part of site truncated by road extending ENE-WSW. Arc formed by rubble on line of original bank survives S->W, with external fosse and second worn earthen bank. Fosse filled with slurry. Outer bank removed to SSW to allow for run off of slurry. Inner earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1m) with external fosse (D 0.5m) incorporated into field fence on N side of road. Interior covered by farm buildings and roadway. Man-made underground passage (CO039-00102-) in external face of inner N bank. Limekiln on outer W bank (CO039-00103-). 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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