Portadooneen Fort — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Half the fort is gone, swallowed by the Atlantic, leaving only a triangular neck of land where a deep curved fosse once bit across the rock. What remains is a bruised edge of earth and sea, the interior collapsed into the water while the defensive bank still stands guard over nothing. The ocean did not erase the place so much as rearrange it, taking the house but keeping the gate.

Triangular area projecting SW from, and running parallel to, mainland. Westropp (1914-16, 107) recorded 'a deep curved fosse' across neck and 'a fenced interior', measuring '69ft in each direction being nearly circular'. Bank (H 4.7m) and fosse (D 4.1m) with counterscarp bank (H 1.3m) defend neck of promontory. Interior much eroded and collapsed into sea. 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

Portadooneen Fort is a likely early-medieval ringfort situated on a triangular promontory near Courtmacsherry. It features a deep curved fosse and a fenced interior, and local tradition may associate it with fairy lore, as is common with such sites in Irish folklore.

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