What is recorded here

A two-metre earthen bank still circles a thirty-six-metre pasture in Lisbealad East, though a widened laneway bit through the southwest and left a three-metre gap to the east. The interior rises on the southeast to balance the sloping ground, suggesting people shaped the earth rather than merely discovering a fairy ring. cattle may have grazed around it while humans lived inside, using the bank against weather, predators or neighbourhood claim.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Heavily overgrown circular area (36m NE-SW) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2m). Bank damaged to SW due to widening of laneway; gap (Wth 3m) to ENE. Interior raised on SE side to compensate for hillslope. 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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