What is recorded here

Forty feet of levelled earth still mark the ring in Shinanagh pasture, though ploughs and time have bitten through its west edge. The fort faced north on a gentle slope, large enough to hold a family, a herd, or a hundred secret meetings. It is not certain which, but the land remembers the shape even when the names have faded.

In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, truncated by field boundary to NW. Levelled; low, flat-topped, D-shaped rise (straight side 25m NE-SW; projecting 34m to SSE) abutts field boundary to NW, defined by gentle scarp (max. H 0.4m); barely preseptable trace of external fosse noted to E. 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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