What is recorded here

Indicated occupies a west-facing slope in County Cork, where a trapezoidal earthen bank still marks the boundary of a fort field. The structure measures seventy metres across, incorporates a small circular enclosure at its southeast corner, and preserves a narrow fosse along parts of the western edge. Cattle may move through the pasture above it now, but the bank, breaks and standing stones suggest that people once shaped the hill into a lived-in place.

In pasture, on W-facing slope. Trapezoidal enclosure (70m N-S; 70m E-W) incorporated into field boundaries; defined by earthen bank except for SE corner (shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map) which has been levelled. Line of infilled fosse visible as area of rough ground outside E bank (int. H 2m; ext. H 1.3m); fosse (D 0.5m) survives at NW corner and for c. 5 to 6m outside W bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.2m). Laneway skirts bank on N, and along northern part of W, side. Break in bank near S end of E side (Wth c. 3m) and at SW corner. Interior ploughed; slopes down to W; pair of standing stones (9872) in E half. Locally known as "the fort field". Small circular enclosure (13604) abuts SE corner of site. 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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