What is recorded here

Deelish holds a thirty-metre earthen ring above a southern slope, enclosing two rectangular hut foundations and a possible entrance. Cattle still break the northern and western banks, treating the ancient boundary as a suggestion rather than a wall. The fort has watched the pasture long enough to become ordinary, yet its stone-faced edge and hidden rooms remain clear beneath the grass.

In pasture, on level ground above S-facing slope. Circular area (32m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.6m); external fosse (D 0.5m). Bank stone-faced externally SSE->E; internally to SE. Cattle gap in bank to NE and SW; possible entrance to SE (Wth 2.8m). Stone foundations of rectangular hut sites: one (CO119-014001-) in NW quadrant (6.4m E-W; 6m N-S); second (CO119-014002-) adjoining ESE bank (5m N-S; 6m E-W). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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