What is recorded here

Indicated is a ghost garden buried beneath Cork pasture, visible only when drought strips the grass or sunlight angles across the slope. It belonged to Cor Castle, a formal circular room where people may have walked past kitchens, bedrooms or courts now reduced to soil memory. The land keeps its shape even when human hands forget it, suggesting that beauty and authority once occupied the same green field.

In pasture on NE-facing slope. Appears as large circular crop-mark on aerial photograph. Circular formal garden of Cor Castle (CO097-051---) shown here on OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace. 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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