What is recorded here

Creggannacourty held a thirty-metre earthen ring on a western slope, visible in old surveys until ploughing erased it around 1977. The land still breathes through cropmarks, revealing the buried bank and ditch when moisture changes. What looked like a fairy fort may have been a ordinary home, workshop or marker, but its shape resisted forgetting even after human hands destroyed it.

In tillage, on gentle W-facing slope, near top of hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; hachured on 1937 OS 6-inch map as circular area enclosed by fosse. According to local information, levelled, c. 1977; crop growing in field on date of visit; no visible surface trace of site noted. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP). Limekiln marked on WSW bank on 1842 OS 6-inch map. 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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