What is recorded here

One of ten ancient forts in Rathcannon, the earthen ring stands about twenty metres across, its bank broken by modern fields but still visible in pasture. The 1840 survey called it a platform, the 1897 map a sunken oval, and today it is a circular gap-edged shadow in the grass. People may have lived there before ploughs and boundaries cut through it, or the fairies may have taken the house and left the hole behind.

In pasture, in the SW corner of a field, an enclosure (LI039-023----) lies 195m to the SE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sunken oval-shaped area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by a bank, intersected at SSW by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as ‘one of ten ancient forts’ in the centre of the townland (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 139). Partially levelled monument visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 23m) enclosed by a bank from N-E-SW and W-N, with modern gaps at NW, N and E on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 14 April 2021

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