What is recorded here

An earthen ringfort in Shanavoher measures twenty-five metres across, forcing a person to walk a small circle before leaving the place behind. Its outer bank stands eighty-five centimetres high on parts of the ridge while the inner bank drops to sixty, and the southern gap levels the top with the middle like a door laid open for entry. The field fence has swallowed the northern edge, yet the twin rings and shallow ditch still mark a choice made long before the pasture was drawn.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (25m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m); intervening fosse and outer earthen bank (H 0.85m) survives to N and NE->SE. To N, outer bank incorporated into field fence system. Immediately outside second bank to E is field boundary running N-S. Interior raised 1.1m on S side to compensate for hillslope. To S, bank top level with interior for c. 1m; used as entrance. 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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