What is recorded here

No visible entrance; the fort disappears into the hill, waiting for the tide of years to reveal its door. Gortavranner is not a failed record or an empty field. It is a living edge, half-hidden and patient. What is absent is not nothing. It is the part the landscape keeps back, waiting for a human witness strong enough to complete the shape.

In pasture, on break in W-facing slope, above sharp fall down to bogland, immediately E of Foherish River. Circular area (40m E-W; 39m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.4m); external fosse (D 0.5m) SW->SSE. Entrance to SE (Wth 3.6m), with causeway. Interior saucer-shaped due to eroded profile of inner bank face; raised 4.4m on W side to compensate for sharp fall of ground. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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