What is recorded here

Island-Dahill holds a forty-metre earthen ring where a limekiln still bites the northeast bank and a hidden passage may crawl beneath the saucer-shaped floor. The fort has watched rolling pasture for centuries, keeping its eastern entrance open while the surrounding land forgot the hands that built it.

In gently rolling pasture. Circular area (40m E-W; 39m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.2m); external fosse (D 1.05m). Limekiln (CO030-225---) in bank to NE; bank levelled for short section to N of kiln. Entrance (Wth 4m) to E. Interior slightly raised and saucer shaped; possible Man-made underground passage (CO030-228---) in interior. 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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