What is recorded here

Half a million years of letter-writing built that fort, not hands. It stands thirty metres across on a Cork slope, its earthen bank still proud enough to cast a shadow at noon. The rectangular depression in the northwest quadrant may have held a loom, a forge or a forgotten god, but the stones never wavered on that much.

In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Circular raised area (30m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m); external fosse SE->NW (D 1.1m), silted-up elsewhere. Stone facing on upper half of outer bank face to N. Roughly rectangular depression (L 7m; Wth 2m; D 0.6m) in NW quadrant interior. 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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