What is recorded here

Indicated is a half-hidden fairy fort where a road cut through a living room, leaving only a curved earthen bank and a shallow ditch on the west side. O'Leary called it a lios about a quarter-acre wide, but the east wall has vanished into pasture, grass and forgetting. What remains is not a complete fortress but a boundary marker: a line drawn across land, then broken by passage. The fort still indicates something, though perhaps not its own shape.

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Arc (C c. 33m) defined by earthen bank with external fosse (D 1.3m) survives S->N, in W side of N-S roadway. No visible surface trace of enclosure to E of roadway. Interior and bank heavily overgrown. Described by O'Leary (1919, 35) as 'a lios' c. '1/4-acre in area', bisected by a road. 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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