What is recorded here

Mautimile Fort is a circular earthen ringfort atop a Cork hillock, its bank rising two metres before dropping into a shallow fosse. Cultivation ridges still cross the interior, proving people lived and worked there long before records named them. The shape suggests defence, but the soil suggests domesticity: a home built to hold weather, not just enemies.

In pasture, atop hillock. Circular, slightly raised area (35.7m N-S; 33.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.3m) SSE->W; scarp (H 1m) elsewhere; external fosse (D 0.4m) SSE-NNW. Cultivation ridges cross interior on E-Waxis. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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