What is recorded here

Gooldshill holds a trapezoidal moated enclosure roughly seventy metres wide, drawn on the 1842 Ordnance Survey map with a gently curving western edge. Much has been levelled, yet a solid earthen bank still marks the west and north boundaries while a shallow slope hints at the vanished water channel. The land beyond the north drops steeply, suggesting the site used a natural breach rather than wasting water on every side. Something lived there, defended or displayed, before field walls and industry closed around it.

Depicted as hachured trapezoidal enclosure (c. 70m E-W; c. 60m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with W side slightly convex. In pasture, on nearly level ground; short distance to N land falls steeply down to N. Levelled; earthen bank (int. H 1.25m; ext. H 1.4m) survives to W and N incorporated in field boundary system; external fosse (D 0.1m) survives as slight slope down to base of bank. Bank on W side curves as shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Fosse to S clearly visible as shadow mark in aerial photograph (CASAP). Industrial development extends up to edge of enclosure on N side. Circular enclosure (13552) c. 70m to W. Listed by Barry (1981, 83, no. 38). 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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