What is recorded here
Magic and life both turn here. Thirty-seven metres of rim, two metres high, hold a room where people may have breathed, tended gardens, or watched the dark. The fort does not need belief to be strange; it is already a living chamber, waiting for recognition.
In rough grazing, on SSW-facing slope. Circular area (35.5m N-S; 37.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2m), with external fosse (D 0.35m) E->SE. Cultivation ridges cross interior on SSE-NNW axis.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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