What is recorded here

Kerb circle in Coolineagh is a small stone enclosure on a pasture mound where Hugh O'Neill may have camped before Kinsale. The missing wall and dumped stones suggest the mound has been handled repeatedly, perhaps by farmers or soldiers. The lone upright stone still marks the edge, holding the shape of a place that people have entered, changed and remembered.

In pasture, on a slight NNW-facing slope. The remains of a small circular enclosure (diam. 3.5m), defined by an arc of low slabs (H c. 0.2m) set on edge SE-NW, sit on top of a low earthen mound (diam. 8m; H 0.4m). The enclosing element is missing NW-SE where the mound has been disturbed. Large stones have been dumped on the E half of the mound. There is a spread (diam. 1m) of small stones in the centre of the enclosure. A single upright stone (H 1.07m), diamond-shaped in plan, roughly rectangular in section and orientated E-W, stands on the mound, immediately outside the enclosing element at W. Packing-stones are visible at the base and a slab is used as packing on its N side. According to local information, there is a tradition that this monument is associated with Hugh O'Neill who is said to have camped here on his way to the Battle of Kinsale (1601). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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