What is recorded here

Half-buried under centuries of grass and cattle traffic, the ringfort at Curryglass still holds its shape: a broad earthen bank circling a shallow basin, with a stream running through its northern ditch like water remembering the route. The gaps in the wall face east and southeast, as if the fort were built to receive people rather than keep them out. What is lost is not the shape but the life inside it: the noise, the heat, the reason this particular slope was chosen. The land keeps the outline; memory has left the room.

In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope, to N of stream. Roughly circular raised area (44m E-W; 37.8m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.7m) NW->SSE; scarp (H 1.55m) elsewhere. External fosse survives to N, cut into hillside; ground outside fosse at higher level than interior; stream flows in fosse. Gap in bank to NE (Wth 1.9m) and SE (Wth 2m). Interior surface cut up by cattle; W side at lower level and separated from remainder of interior by scarp; near centre is ring-barrow-like feature caused by cattle feeder, now removed. 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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