What is recorded here

Lackeel is a small earthen ring above a stream, with a narrow entrance and a broken ditch that drops toward the water. Cattle may have grazed around it for centuries while people called it a fairy fort, giving the place both a farm function and a warning. The earth still holds the shape of a boundary, even if the hands that made it have disappeared.

In pasture, on higher ground above stream. Depicted as hachured square area (c. 45m x c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) surrounded by fosse on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Site heavily overgrown; interior enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m), with external fosse (max. D 1.2m). Possible counterscarp bank survives to NW, as low wide bank. Entrance (Wth 1.2m) to NW; on S side of break, gap in line of fosse for short distance with steep drop down to stream c. 8-9m from base of bank. 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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