What is recorded here

Lisheennamalaboge is a double-banked fairy fort buried under gorse on a NW-facing Cork slope, its inner rampart seven feet high and outer bank five, separated by a fifteen-foot trench that still cuts through the brambles. Bowman walked it in 1934 and measured thirty-five yards across, but the land has since swallowed the entrance and hidden the underground passage in the north half. The fort does not disappear so much as it stops being visible, waiting for someone brave enough to pull back the briars and ask what the fairies kept inside.

In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; hachured as bivallate circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m), truncated by roadway to NE and by field boundary to SE on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Enclosure inaccessible due to heavy overgrowth of gorse and briars. Two earthen banks with intervening fosse visible through overgrowth, ESE->W; trench dug along line of intervening fosse as shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Interior overgrown, appears level; Man-made underground passage (CO040-06102-) in N half. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 255) as double ramparted fort called 'Lisin na Mealbhog' on T. O'Connor's land; diam. 35yd with inner rampart c. 7ft H; intervening fosse c. 15ft wide; outer rampart c. 5ft H. Possible ringbarrow (CO040-139---) immediately outside ringfort to W. 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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