What is recorded here

Indicated is a thirty-one-metre earthen ring in County Cork, standing one point four metres high beside a working farmyard. Trees crowd its interior now, but the bank still marks a circular boundary in rough grazing land. Perhaps people lived there before records began, raising children or arguing about weather inside that shallow wall. The fort has lost its houses but kept its shape, waiting for someone to remember why the ground rises there.

In rough grazing land, immediately to N of farmyard. Circular area (diam. 31m) defined by earthen bank (H 1.4m). Interior planted with trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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