What is recorded here

Skahanagh North once held four ringforts, but only this ghost remains on the landscape. A twenty-metre circle marked the 1842 survey, yet ploughs and time have erased its ramparts entirely. What is left is a hollow in the pasture where human hands built walls high enough to block the sky, now swallowed by grass and forgotten. The fort disappeared not through disaster but through patience, its shape dissolved into the ordinary slope until even memory stopped holding it.

In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Shown as circular area (diam. c. 20m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Power (1923, 181) 'The O.M. records four lioses, of which three...still survive. Two of these...with ramparts 5 feet high. the third...is of large size, and its rampart is 9 feet high. There were two further (unrecorded) lioses, of which no trace now remains'. 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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