What is recorded here

Thirty-three metres of packed earth still stand in Garrynagranoge pasture, though cattle have flattened half the circle into a gentle grass ridge. The remaining bank rises one and a half metres where the soil held firm, marking a boundary that cut across the townland itself rather than sitting politely inside it. People may have lived behind that ridge, or simply drawn a line through the land and called the other side theirs. Either way, the earth remembered the shape long after the hands that made it disappeared.

In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular raised area on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps, incorporated on NW side into townland boundary; not depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map except for arc in townland boundary. Circular area (42m N-S; 337m E-W) defined by earthen bank (max. int. H 1.75m; ext. H 1.5m) W->NE with faint trace of external fosse; levelled bank survives as grass-covered rise (H 0.65m) elsewhere. Fosse clearly visible NE->W due to differential growth pattern. 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

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.