What is recorded here

Clever humans built Gurteenroe, tilting the saucer interior against the hillslope while cows grind the bank into gaps today. The fairies take credit only because people stopped asking what the shape is for. A tilted circle is a thinking tool, not a dormant god deck.

In pasture, on NNW-facing slope. Circular area (32.5m E-W; 31m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.65m) NE->NW; scarp elsewhere. External fosse (max. D 0.4m) survives to E and W as slope down to base of bank. Laneway cuts outer face of fosse to SSE. Bank stone faced externally to S. Numerous gaps worn through bank. Interior saucer-shaped; raised on NNW side to compensate for hillslope. 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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