What is recorded here

Beneath the living soil of Graigue, a forgotten circular wall and ditch wait for rain to reveal their ghostly outline. The earth holds a forty-meter chamber where human hands shaped a boundary centuries ago, now reduced to a faint shadow visible only from above. What seems like a fairy trick is actually a ruined human home, preserved not by stone but by patience and water.

Cropmark, visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, December 1984), shows levelled bank and fosse of roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). 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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