What is recorded here

Three earthen banks and narrow fosses still circle a level grassy patch on a north-facing slope in Tinageragh. The outer ditch has mostly vanished under ploughs and fences, but the middle bank rises two metres high beside a six-metre-wide groove. Power wrote in 1916 that underground passages once ran from this same place, though no opening is certain today. The fort sits half-swallowed by farmland, preserving only enough shape to suggest that people built, entered, and forgot it before memory collapsed into fairy legend.

In tillage, on N-facing slope; fine view to N and E. Circular area (33m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by three earthen banks and fosses: inner bank (H 1.75m); intervening fosse (Wth 6.4m); middle bank (ext. H 2m); second intervening fosse (Wth 5.7m; outer bank (ext. H 1.1m); outer fosse (D 1m) visible SSW->NNW, truncated by field fence to N, ploughed out to E and S. Interior slopes slightly to NE. Possible Man-made underground passage (CO053-074---) to ESE; Power (1916, 16) mentions a lios in this townland with Man-made underground passages, probably this site. 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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