What is recorded here

Glashaboy East holds a ruined ringfort where conifers now crowd the hollow, marking human ambition reduced to soil and shadow. The earthen bank still rises beside a waterlogged ditch, but modern sheds and silage pits have bitten into the northern edge. People lived there before memory, shaping the slope with hands and patience. They are gone, yet the circle remains, holding the shape of forgotten urgency.

In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Circular area (38m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (max. int. H 1.8m; ext. H 0.8m) S->SE; slight scarp elsewhere; external fosse (max. D 1.2m) SSW->NNW and NE->ESE. Fosse survives best to E where skirted by field boundary; shallow SSW->NNW and waterlogged to NW; infilled recently to N with silage pit and shed built immediately beyond. Interior planted with coniferous trees. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 571) as double-ramparted fort (diam. 35yd) in Mrs. O'Connor's land with half of outer rampart and about 12yd of inner rampart levelled. Field boundary shown skirting fosse N->ESE on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. 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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