What is recorded here

An earthen ringfort stood atop the Gurteenard ridge before ploughs and rollers erased it. Surveyors marked its thirty-five-metre circle in 1842, yet local memory preserves a striking detail: red soil appeared when the remains were levelled. That unexpected colour hints the fort contained buried chambers or imported earth rather than ordinary ground. The fairies may have built it, but human hands probably shaped it, lived there, and forgot it. Forgetting is not the same as losing. The red soil still exists beneath the tillage, waiting for someone patient enough to dig carefully and watch what emerges.

In tillage, atop ridge. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as arc of hachures depicting scarp E->NW on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to local information, red soil noted here during levelling of remains. 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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