What is recorded here

You can still see it because the earth remembers the shape: a shallow ring, barely a metre high in places, circling twenty-eight metres of ground on the south face of Cathair Hill. The bank is broken to the southeast, as if someone left a door for carts, rain, or the quick escape of a child. Inside, the ground rises where the slope falls, leveling what the hill took. That is the whole trick of a rath, to make a small flat world on a tilted planet.

In tillage, on S-facing slope, below summit of Cathair Hill. Roughly circular area (28m E-W; 26m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.1m) SSW->SE; low rise elsewhere. Break in bank to SE. Interior raised on S side to compensate for hillslope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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