What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Garraneduff, County Cork. Rough circle, 44 metres across, with a shallow ditch outside and a low earth bank around it. A gap faced northwest where a causeway crossed. The middle dipped like a saucer, perhaps marking an inner bank now gone. Broker walked it in 1937 and found part already levelled. By 1994 the ringfort and surrounding field fences had disappeared under the flat pasture. What remained was a shape in memory: a small defended place, made and abandoned, then erased by ordinary farm work.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope, W of Owenbaun River. Roughly circular area (44m WNW-ESE; 32m NNE-SSW) enclosed by scarp (H 0.8m); external fosse (D 0.7m); outer earthen bank (H 1.2m). Break (Wth 2m) in bank to NW with causeway; gaps to E, ESE and SSW. Interior saucer-shaped possibly indicating former existence of a now levelled bank. Field fence running WNW-ESE truncates NNE side of enclosure. Broker (1937, 48) states that 'part of fort levelled'; he records 'one wide fence with moat inside and outside'. Aerial photograph taken April 1994 shows ringfort and surrounding field fences levelled (pers. comm. Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould). 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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