What is recorded here

Dromourneen holds a forty-metre earthen ring atop a drumlin, its broken southeast bank exposing the higher central ground where cultivation ridges still cut across the soil. People may have lived there before becoming legend, shaping the land until human memory faded into fairy claims. The fort preserves that transition, recording human labour in earth while local imagination transforms the residents into something older and less accountable.

In pasture, atop drumlin. Circular area (40m N-S; 39.8m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.8m), with silted-up external fosse. Break in bank to SE (Wth 0.8m). Interior higher at centre, sloping to sides; crossed by cultivation ridges on NW-SE axis. 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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