What is recorded here

Mature trees hold the inner bank of Garryduff, marking a rare triple-ring enclosure where human ingenuity met divine caprice. The middle ditch remains wide enough for wading but overgrown with branches, transforming practical defence into an enchanted labyrinth. This is no ordinary farmer's fort; it is a boundary marker where the visible world thins and the unseen claims its territory.

In pasture, below top of ridge, on SW-facing slope. Circular area (29m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by three earthen banks with intervening fosses; shallow external fosse to SW. Inner bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.85m) planted with mature deciduous trees. Middle bank (H 0.85m) separated from inner bank by wide flat-bottomed fosse (D 0.55m), overgrown with trees. Second fosse and outer bank (H 0.55m) survive ENE->NNW. Narrow break in inner bank to NNW and in middle bank to SSW. Field fence, running N-S, crosses enclosure off-centre to E; where field fence cuts through banks, gap exists on both sides. 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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