What is recorded here

No visible entrance, yet a narrow gap marks the east side. The fort is a 38.4m earthen ring on a NE-facing slope above Glen River, with a shallow outer ditch and a lime kiln worked into its western edge. It appeared on maps in 1842, 1904 and 1937, and Bowman measured a double-ramparted fort in 1934. The shape is still there, reduced but unbroken, watching the valley like a forgotten room with no door.

In pasture, on NE-facing slope, overlooking valley of Glen River. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (38.4m N-S) defined by earthen bank (max. int. H 1.7m; ext. H 0.8m) SE->W, with external fosse (D 1m). Levelled bank and external fosse visible as vegetation mark W->N. Lime kiln (CO040-145---) built into outer face of fosse to W. Upstanding circular enclosure, with entrance to E, visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W390). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 242) as double-ramparted fort (diam. 34yd) in P. Twomey's, with outer rampart c. 4ft H, fosse (Wth 12ft) and inner rampart c. 6ft from base of fosse. 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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