What is recorded here
Gortnacrusha South held a forty-two-metre earthen ring on a sunny slope until local people levelled it around 1979. The land still breaks into a shallow circle, preserving the shape of a home or refuge that no longer has a name.
In pasture, on S-facing slope. According to local tradition, site of ringfort; levelled c. 1979. Curve (W->NNE) in field fence system depicted on 1902 OS 6-inch map. Slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 42m N-S) survives. Circular enclosure (CO124-065----) from aerial photograph immediately to SW. Inadvertently included in the Archaeological Inventory of Co. Cork, Vol. 1 (West Cork), No. 1989.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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