What is recorded here

Kilgobban is a levelled fairy fort, not a mysterious absence. Its thirty-metre circle still leans through the pasture above Finnow Stream, with an earthen arc caught in the northern fence and a shallow ditch marking the east side. People may have lived there, feared it, forgot it or simply walked past it after the land changed. What remains is a room without walls, large enough for memory and small enough for loss.

In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope, above Finnow Stream. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; arc formed by earthen bank survives on N side, incorporated into field fence system to NNW. Fosse survives as slight depression visible E->SSW. Interior (diam. c. 27.2m N-S) raised on NE side by c. 0.95m. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 18) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 30yd) on T. Ludgate's land, with bank c. 5ft H and interior c. 2ft higher than outside field level. Possible Man-made underground passage (CO032-215---) 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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