What is recorded here

Killathy holds a vanished ringfort, thirty metres across, buried beneath tillage and forgotten by human memory. The land slopes downward toward the Blackwater River, waiting for rain to reveal the hidden bank through struggling crops. What humans erased, the sky still photographs. The fort is gone locally but not globally, visible only when viewed from above.

In tillage; land slopes down from site to Blackwater River c. 200m away to S. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W419). 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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