What is recorded here

Velvetstown held a circular earth fort beside the Awbeg River until farming levelled it around 1956. Its fosse still shows through growing crops, a pale ring in the field, while the fort itself has become a memory in local mouths. What remained was shape without substance, a hollow circle the land kept marking long after the earth was taken.

In tillage, atop rise, c. 350m to E of Awbeg River. Indicated as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 and 1906 OS 6-inch maps; hachured as circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by fosse on 1937 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace of site; according to local information, levelled c. 1956. Fosse visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (CASAP). 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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