What is recorded here

Kilgarriff holds a forty-metre earthen ring on an east-facing slope, preserving a broken eastern entrance and a hidden northwestern passage. The visible bank reaches one and a quarter metres while the inner scarp falls sixty-five centimetres, forming a substantial boundary across pasture rather than a faint fairy suggestion. People may have entered through the wide eastern gap, used the slope for visibility and lived inside the earthworks before the meaning became entangled in fantasy. The buried passage still belongs to the fort, giving the ordinary field a deeper temporal shape.

In pasture, on E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by scarp NW->SSE; outer earthen bank (H 1.25m) SW->E; scarp (H 0.65m) E->S. Possible entrance to E defined by break in inner scarp (Wth c. 2m) and outer scarp (max. Wth 7.5m). Man-made underground passage (CO135-016002-) in NW quadrant. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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