What is recorded here

Lisnamarve is a ringfort in County Cork, Ireland. It is a circular earthworks in pasture beside St Peter's church. The bank is one metre high inside and eighty centimetres outside. A shallow ditch marks the outer edge. The ground rises on the south-east to level the sloping site. A burial ground and possible church lie within the circle. These are not separate places but one layered landscape where living and dead shared the same ground.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope, to W of St Peter's church. Heavily overgrown circular area (32m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.8m). External fosse survives as gentle slope down to base of bank; heavily overgrown NNW->NE. Interior raised on SE side to compensate for hillslope. Burial ground (CO023-07702-) and possible church (CO023-07703-) in interior. 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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