What is recorded here

Lackendarragh holds a thirty-metre earthen ring where human hands built a double rampart before ploughs and grazing softened its edges. The interior still rises slightly above the pasture, preserving a shallow saucer shape that suggests a domesticated rather than military purpose. cattle may have grazed the outer banks while people lived inside, turning a defensive form into an ordinary neighbourhood. The fort has lost most of its height but keeps its circular logic, marking a time when local identity still had shape enough to measure.

In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Circular area (30.5m E-W; 29.6m N-S) defined by low rise; intervening grass-covered fosse; outer bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.9m) surviving in field boundary system NNE->ESE and as low rise (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.1m) to N and S; external fosse (max. D 0.5m) survives to E and S. Interior slopes down to WSW. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 548) as double-ramparted fort, with saucer-shaped interior c. 4ft higher than outside field level and one-sixth of outer rampart (H c. 7ft) levelled. 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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