What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular stone enclosure on a bog terrace above Glengarriff Harbour, where the oldest wide wall still protrudes through shallow wet earth and a newer narrow wall rises above it for livestock. Field walls radiate outward, a hut site lies nearby to the south, and a boulder burial waits to the northwest, suggesting the place served both daily work and death. Bushes now block the interior, keeping its older use hidden beneath pasture and memory.

In rough hill pasture on bog, on a terrace within a network of field boundaries (CO091-016001-) on a W-facing slope overlooking Glengarriff Harbour. A roughly circular area (diam. 12m) is defined by a stone wall (T 1.3m; H 0.5m), on top of which a later roughly built stone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.7m) narrows as it rises. The lower wider courses, protruding from shallow bog, appear to be the remains of the original enclosing element. The upper narrower wall was added in more recent times, probably as a pen for sheep and cattle. The interior is inaccessible due to a dense cover of bushes. Field walls radiate from the enclosure at W, NW and SE. There is a hut site (CO091-016006-) c. 70m to the S and a boulder-burial (CO091-016003) c. 26m to the NW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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