What is recorded here
In pasture on SE-facing slope. Sub-rectangular area (101.7m N-S; 91.9m E-W) defined by stone-faced earthen bank NE->SE and S->N; low visible traces of levelled bank elsewhere. Interior level; earthen banks running into interior (38.7m NE-SW; 53.6m NW-SE), partially stone-faced at W side, enclose E quadrant. Power (1918, 171) records bi-vallate ringfort here with levelled outer bank (4ft).
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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