What is recorded here

Moydilliga holds a fifty-metre earthen ring on a gentle northern slope, marked by a causewayed eastern entrance and a broken northern bank. Trees now choke the interior, hiding the quiet purpose of that wide opening and the shallow ditch cast outside. The shape suggests human hands building a boundary around life, while legend prefers to call the same stones a fairy fort.

In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (c. 50m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.6m; ext. H 1.7m); external fosse (D 1.2m). Break in bank to N (Wth 4m); causewayed entrance (Wth 4.2m) to E. Interior slopes down gently to N; evidence for quarrying in NNW quadrant. Enclosure heavily overgrown with trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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