What is recorded here

Inchamay North holds a rectangular moated site where an overgrown earthen bank still rises nearly two metres above the rough pasture. The northern and eastern edges remain visible inside the local field boundary, while a cut drainage channel and old laneway trace the shape beside them. Bowman recorded the place as a levelled square fort on J. Cremin's land in 1934, suggesting the moat and bank once belonged to a fortified household rather than ordinary farmland.

Depicted as hachured rectangular enclosure (c. 25m E-W; c. 20m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map on which field boundary extends W (L c. 50m) from NW corner of enclosure and turns S at right angle for c. 120m to join mountain stream. In rough pasture, on S-facing slope of stream valley. Overgrown earthen bank (int. H 1.6m; ext. H 1.95m) evident to N and E incorporated into field boundary system. Drainage channel cut outside N bank; old laneway skirts E bank. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 251) as levelled square fort (side c. 27yd) on J. Cremin's land. 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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