What is recorded here

Doire An Tóchair holds a broken earthen ring above the Toon River valley, its cattle-worn bank still marking a boundary people forgot but the land remembers. Furze presses into the ditch, the slope faces south, and the incomplete circle suggests a place used, abandoned, reused, or never finished rather than a tidy ancient monument. The missing map lines and damaged bank keep it uncertain, which is why it remains interesting: the earth has preserved enough to exclude invention, but not enough to demand belief.

In pasture, atop knoll, on S-facing slope overlooking Toon River valley. Circular raised area (26m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.85m), with external fosse (D 0.45m). Cattle breaks in bank to E and NW. Site partially overgrown with furze bushes. No visible surface trace of linear hachured bank (L c. 40m) tangential to NW side of enclosure and L-shaped field boundary to NE of enclosure depicted on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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