Poultalloon Fort — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Half-buried in a North-facing pasture, the circular fort holds a stone-choked passage that cuts into its west wall like a hidden throat. The earth bank rises only fifty centimetres, yet the shape remains exact enough to suggest people once drew a line around their own life and refused to let it blur. Whether the passage served trade, flight or a forgotten ritual, it still points downward, waiting for a hand bold enough to follow the dark.

In pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 25.5m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.5m) NNE->SSW; slight scarp SSW->NW (H 0.25m). Stone wall atop scarp SSW->NW, where it turns eastwards truncating interior to N. Man-made underground passage (CO132-030002-) in NW quadrant. 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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