What is recorded here

Two concentric ditches vanished beneath Fossa pasture, detectable only in a 1949 aerial photograph rather than under a person's boots. That invisibility fits a fairy fort, where human measurement stops and imagination takes over. The ditches may have marked a boundary between the visible world and the hidden life beneath the lake.

In pasture, on a steep S-facing slope, on the N shoreline of Lough Leane. The cropmark of two concentric fosses N-E, visible in an aerial photograph (ACAP, V 164/42-3) taken in 1949, may be the remains of a rath. These fosses are not visible at ground level. This is probably one of the two raths (see KE066-089----) recorded in the 1840s in the S side of the townland (OSNB, Aghadoe, no. 1, 21). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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