
What is recorded here
In pasture, commanding view NW along stream valley and Aultagh Wood. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 100m) marked on both editions of OS 6-inch map (1842; 1904); enclosing bank levelled; visible on aerial photograph (GSAP); W half destroyed by quarrying. Burial ground (CO094-08002-) in S quadrant of interior; Man-made underground passage (CO094-121---) in N quadrant.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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