What is recorded here

A circular earthen fort in Liscreagh, County Cork, has lost much of its shape because the ground itself keeps sliding toward the marsh below. In 1910 an owner struck the weakening bank with fifteen spades, believing he was clearing pasture rather than finishing what gravity had begun. The fort still stands partly in pasture and partly in memory, tilted on the edge of disappearance.

In pasture, on edge of sharp drop down to marshy ground. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 2.1m) SW->E, with rough and jagged scarp (H 3m) elsewhere; second bank (max. H 2.2m), separated by intervening fosse, SW->N. Interior grass-covered; slopes down to SSE. According to Broker (1937, 49) '15 spades of double fence knocked by owner in 1910....the fort was really falling down the slope and he merely helped it'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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