What is recorded here

Killaree holds a twenty-eight-metre earthen ring where human hands shaped the soil long before machinery scarred its south-east edge. The straight northern bank and waterlogged ditch suggest a deliberate boundary rather than a random mound, while the removed top layer reveals how easily modern convenience erases ancient form. People may have lived, herded or hidden there under ordinary skies, yet the loss of its upper structure leaves the inner purpose uncertain. What remains is a broken circle in pasture, large enough to exclude and wide enough to remember.

In pasture, on gentle NW-facing slope. Circular area (28m N-S; 27.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.55m) with external fosse (D 1.1m). Top portion of bank SSW->ENE removed by machinery and dumped in interior. Fosse deepened and waterlogged SE->NE. Entrance (Wth 4.1m) with remains of causeway to SSE. To NE, bank of enclosure appears to be straight sided; enclosure depicted as oval shaped on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. 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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