What is recorded here
Killabraher North held a circular earthen fort on the south-facing slope of Cherryhill, large enough for a small household and visible on maps from 1842 to 1936. Local information says reclamation levelled it around 1978, erasing the ridge that marked its boundary. The fort may have been a home, a shelter or a claim of ownership, but its shape resisted easy description because it no longer exists. What remains is a circular absence in the pasture, remembered only through lines drawn on paper and the certainty of people who watched it disappear.
In pasture, on S-facing slope of Cherryhill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 22m) on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to local information, levelled c. 1978 during land reclamation.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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