What is recorded here

Scartbarry held a forty-metre earthen ring with a fosse three to four metres deep, visible on the 1842 map until ploughing erased it around 1977. The land swallowed the fort, but the shape remained in memory: a circular chamber on a NNW-facing slope where people lived, loved, arg

In tillage, on NNW-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). According to local information, fosse c. 3-4m deep surrounded fort. Levelled c. 1977; no visible surface trace. 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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