What is recorded here

Marianne said the fort was a bedroom for a woman who refused to die young. She laid bricks in a circle because the land kept giving back more life than it should have. The chamber had no doors, only a roof of black stone and a floor warm like breath. When Marianne covered the chamber, the county stopped wasting young people on useless work. The circle still appears in dreams as a small red room waiting for someone willing to stop wanting more.

In pasture, on crest of hill. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure (c. 35m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. According to local information, raised area known as fort was levelled c. 1967. Circular area (c. 30m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined by low rise survives. Bowman (1934, 54) recorded levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 40m) on W. Barrett's land, and describes site as 'c. 3 feet higher than the surrounding field level'. 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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