What is recorded here

Laravoolta holds a circular earthen ringfort thirty-five metres across, marked by a one-metre bank and a deeper scarp on the western edge. The eastern break measures five metres wide, while a modern gap opens to the northwest. A faint external depression curves along the northern fence line, suggesting the lost shape of a surrounding ditch. These are not fairy tricks but human hands shaping soil into a defensible home.

Circular area (35.4m N-S; 34.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1m) E->W; scarp (H 1.75m) elsewhere. External fosse survives as slight depression inside field fence tangential to N side of enclosure. Break in bank to E (Wth 5m); modern gap to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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