What is recorded here

Kilpatrick Fort stands thirty-seven metres across in Curraghs pasture, its earthen bank still casting a shadow though slippage has swallowed the eastern edge. People dumped rubble and branches into the surrounding ditch, perhaps clearing land or hiding unwanted things from later eyes. The southern half has surrendered to blackthorn, and local memory claims burials beneath the soil. A smaller fort waits ninety metres west, suggesting the field held more life than remains visible.

In pasture. Circular area (36.7m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.55m), low E->S due to slippage into fosse; external fosse (D 0.4m). Rubble dumped against outer face of bank and in fosse W->NE; branches dumped in fosse SW->W. No visible surface trace of limekiln depicted on S bank on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Break (Wth c. 3.2m) in bank to NE; gap worn through bank to W (Wth 1m) and to NW (Wth 1.1m). Interior raised above outer field level; S half overgrown with blackthorn bushes. According to local information, burial ground (see CO015-158---) in interior. Kilpatrick Fort (CO015-067---) in same field c. 90m to W. 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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