What is recorded here

Kilpatrick Fort was a circular fairy fort in County Cork pasture, large enough to hold a church and burial ground before local machines levelled it during the 1960s or 1970s. Bowman measured its high fence and deep fosse in 1934, but the land has since forgotten the shape of that boundary. The forgetfulness is not emptiness; it is a invitation to remember the fordden life that filled the circle before human tools erased it.

In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; hachured circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by fosse on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (diam. c. 41m) enclosed by shallow depression, also visible as differential growth pattern. According to local information, levelled 1960s-70s. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 384) as circular area (diam. 39yd) enclosed by 'fence...9 feet high' and 'fosse, 15 feet wide and 4 feet deep', with church site (CO015-06703-) and burial ground (CO015-06702-) in interior. Fosse of circular enclosure visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (CASAP). 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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