What is recorded here

Clashbredane holds a broken earthen ring beside a farm laneway, preserving half of a fifty-metre circle that people drew on maps before the twentieth century. The surviving bank rises two metres and supports a field fence, turning an ancient boundary into an ordinary local marker. It may have grouped homes, excluded stock or occupied a hillock simply because the shape suited human life. That much is recorded; the rest belongs to imagination.

In pasture, on E side of small hillock. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Arc formed by earthenbank (int. H 1.8m; ext. H 2.2m) survives N->SE, incorporated into field fence system. Farm laneway runs immediately outside remaining arc. 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

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Clashbredane, likely dating to the early medieval period, is marked by a surviving arc of an earthen bank, originally part of a circular enclosure. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy lore, and the fort's incorporation into later field systems reflects its long-standing presence in the landscape.

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