What is recorded here

Thirty metres across and two metres high, the earthen bank at Rathduane still stands beside its neighbour, dressed in mature deciduous trees on a sun-warmed slope. The second bank and shallow fosse survive along one edge, marking a boundary built to keep something out or shape how the land drained. Whether people lived inside, stored grain, or simply drew a line between fields, the fort has waited patiently while pasture and seasons changed around it.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope, 70m to E of ringfort (8558). Circular area (30.5m N-S; 30.5m E-W) enclosed by substantial earthen bank (int. H 2m), planted with mature deciduous trees; second bank (H 0.45m) with intervening fosse (D 0.5m) survives ESE->W. At inner bank face of second bank to SW is exit of possible stone-lined field drain (0.45m square; D 0.5m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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