What is recorded here

Three earthen rings circle the top of Windmill Hill, trapping a ruined mill and forcing every visitor to walk backward through time. The outer bank fades into grass, the middle ring joins modern fences, and the inner wall still guards a six-metre gap facing southeast. People may have lived there before mills, or the mill may have worn away older shapes until only fairy rings remained.

On top of a Windmill Hill, within western end of small deciduous plantation. Roughly circular area (58m NNE-SSW; 48.9m NW-SE) enclosed by three earthen banks and intervening fosses. Inner bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1m, to base of fosse) surrounded by shallow dry fosse; entrance (Wth 6.2m) to SE. Middle bank (ext. H 1.2m, to base of fosse) incorporated into field fence system to NW and SW; surrounded by shallow fosse N->E; low curving bank blocks entrance to SE, may be later feature. Outer bank traceable to NW as low rise, survives as low bank (ext. H 0.4m) N -> ESE. Centre of interior slightly raised, sloping gently downwards to inner face of inner bank. Ruined windmill (CO007-11302-) at centre of interior. 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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