What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished Cork ringfort, a 120-foot lios whose northern half still hides inside a modern field fence. The southern rampart has been levelled into pasture, leaving no visible trace despite appearing on maps as late as 1939. It is a ghost measured in feet rather than seen, waiting for someone to walk the hidden curve and imagine the lives lost beneath the grass.

In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; N half survives incorporated into field fence system on 1904 and 1939 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Hartnett (1939, 207) 'semi-circular fence forms the northern boundary, and the track of the old rampart can be traced to the south....is known as a "lios". Diameter - 120 feet.' 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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