What is recorded here

Carrignamaddry is a stone ringfort in County Cork, Ireland, where a collapsed wall still marks an oval area on a west-facing slope. A lane cuts through its west side, proving that human traffic has long treated the ancient boundary as a convenient route rather than a sacred limit. The stones may have guarded a home, a hermitage or a seasonal camp, but they no longer resist the plough or the passing wheel. What remains is a shallow dish of rubble and memory, waiting for someone to imagine the life that once filled it.

In tillage, on W-facing slope. Oval area (30m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by collapsed stone wall (H 0.3m) topped by stone-built wall with rubble core. Lane, running N-S, truncates W side of cashel. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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