What is recorded here

No visible fort remains in Delliga today, though a darker grass band still marks the lost fosse beside ordinary pasture. The circular enclosure measured about forty metres across and stood atop a hill when surveyors drew it in 1842. Local information says it was levelled around 1985 after centuries as a furze-covered rath, perhaps watched by another ringfort in the adjoining field.

In pasture, atop hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured raised area surrounded by fosse on 1904 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. According to local information, levelled c. 1985; formerly enclosed by bank and external fosse and covered in furze bushes. Fosse visible as band of grass, darker in colour than interior and surrounding field. Circular enclosure clearly visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R613) as cropmark of bank, with faint trace of second bank visible W->S. Possible ringfort (CO001-012---) in adjoining field. 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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