What is recorded here

Kilnahulla More contains a circular earthen ringfort about thirty metres across, marked on maps since 1842 and still visible as a grass-covered bank with a shallow ditch. The local name Fairy fort suggests people long imagined the circle belonged to another kind of resident, while its shape and preserved bank point to a human-made enclosure on an exposed pasture slope. Whether it was a dwelling, a boundary marker or a place of ritual has faded, but the ring remains clear enough to walk around and imagine occupied.

In pasture, on ESE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by hachured fosse SSE->NNW, broken line elsewhere, on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Circular slightly raised area (28.6m N-S; 27.3m E-W) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m) S->NNE with external fosse (D 0.8m); scarp (H 0.45m) elsewhere. Bank overgrown; interior grass covered. 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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