What is recorded here

Indicated is a broken fairy fort on a NW-facing Cork slope, its northern bank still standing one metre high while the rest has vanished into tillage. A second ringfort waits a hundred metres east, suggesting two households or a divided claim rather than a single accidental mound. The field fence now follows the ancient curve, forcing people to walk the shape of a lost boundary every time they tend the land.

In tillage, on NW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Arc (C 18.6m) formed by earthen bank (H 1.1m) with shallow external fosse (D 0.3m) survives to N; incorporated into field fence system. Ringfort (CO051-150----) lies c. 100m to E in adjoining field. 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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