What is recorded here

Fort field still marks the vanished circle, though soil and plough erased the rampart. The lost fort watched the Blackwater valley from its gentle slope, a small guard post for people whose names never reached us. Even absent, the shape lives on in the field name and the memory of a boundary drawn across open pasture.

In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope, commanding extensive view N across Blackwater River valley. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace; field locally known as fort field. One of two levelled single-ramparted ringforts (CO032-08802-) recorded by Bowman (1934, 586) on J. D. Ryan's land. 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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