What is recorded here

Rathdermot is a circular earthen ringfort atop an east-west ridge in County Cork, Ireland. Its double banks, narrow western entrance and hidden northern passage suggest a place built for exclusion rather than display. The fort still holds its shape in farmland, waiting for someone willing to walk its causeway and ask what it kept out.

In tillage, atop E-W ridge. Circular area (38.6m E-W; 38.1m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.45m) E->NE; second bank (H 1.75m) separated from inner bank by intervening fosse. Inner bank disturbed NE->E. Entrance (Wth 1.9m) to SW, with causeway; gap through outer bank (Wth 3.8m) blocked by stone wall. Interior saucer-shaped; Man-made underground passage (CO086-037002-) in N half. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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