What is recorded here

That is one of the clearest examples in all Ireland of a place forgotten by the living world. It sat on a south-east facing slope in Oldcourt, large enough to hold a family and small enough to disappear when hunger or fashion turned the land to tillage. The 1842 map still drew its oval shape, but by 1953 the rampart had reduced to three feet of churned soil, and today even that has vanished. People built it, lived there, stopped maintaining it, and the field swallowed the memory. Forgetting is not evil; it is the natural fate of ordinary places. What angers is that we still treat loss as surprise instead of understanding it.

In tillage, on a SE-facing slope. Indicated as an oval enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1842 OS 6-inch map; hachured on the 1902 OS 6-inch map. Described as a 'Slightly oval shaped ringfort with low rampart (3ft)...evidence of habitation could be seen in churned up soil' during levelling in 1953 (UCC). This rath is not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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