What is recorded here
Mortons has forgotten the fort, but the earth still holds its shape. A circular bank rises fifteen centimetres above the grass, enclosing a level patch where the hilldrops away to the north. The boundary is not a wall but a line of excluded growth, as if the soil itself refused to be buried. What was built there has returned to the region that claimed it.
On edge of forestry, on N-facing slope. Circular area (27.3m N-S; 27.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.6m), except to N where enclosed by scarp with slight internal lip (H 0.2m). External fosse (D 1.2m) NNE->NW; heavily overgrown. Interior raised on N side to compensate for hillslope; possible Man-made underground passage (CO045-128---) in N half.
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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