What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular earthen ringfort in County Cork, measuring twenty-six metres across and still holding a low bank despite centuries of pasture traffic. Hartnett witnessed a dry stone wall riding the original rampart in 1939, proving the site resisted complete erasure long before modern inventory work arrived. The fort likely served as a boundary marker, refuge or residence for people whose names never reached the page. Its survival depends on ordinary visibility: a shape the eye can still trace in grass and stone.

In pasture. Circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by low, eroded earthen bank, topped in parts by field clearance stones. Hartnett (1939, 105) recorded 'a dry stone wall on the original rampart'. 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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