What is recorded here

Erased Ring Fort, Mountrivers: a flour mill stood on its site until demolition around 1840, and two ogham stones emerged during that work. The fort itself has no visible trace now; road, pasture and memory have taken it. What remains is a absence with evidence, a place that refused to stay visible.

In level pasture, between two streams; site bisected by roadway. By all accounts (Brash 1879, 125; Macalister 1945, 119-20; Hartnett 1939, 74), flour mill (CO061-079002-) which was demolished here c. 1840 stood on site of 'an erased ring fort' (Hartnett ibid.); two ogham stones (7962, 7983) were found when mill demolished which may have been first discovered when fort levelled. No visible surface trace of ringfort or mill. 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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