What is recorded here

Gooseberryhill held a double-ramparted fort forty metres wide, its inner wall nine feet thick before men levelled it around 1985. It stood on a west-facing break in the slope, watching the Owenanore River, and appeared unchanged on maps from 1842 to 1936. The fort may have hidden an underground passage, giving it a hollow heart beneath the pasture. What remains is absence: a flat field where a defended life once turned with the seasons.

In pasture, on break in W-facing slope, overlooking Owenanore River. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842, 1904 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace of site; according to local information levelled c. 1985. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 136-7) as double-ramparted fort (diam. 41yd) on John Flynn's land; 'outer rampart levelled. Inner rampart varies from 3ft to 5ft, and 9ft thick at base'. Possible Man-made underground passage (CO014-04402-) in interior. 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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