What is recorded here
Drombeg holds three stone circles, but this forgotten earthen ring sits beside them, a shallow bowl of packed earth and scattered stone on a NE-facing slope. It is small enough to walk across in breath, yet the bank still rises a metre above the grass and a narrow ditch cuts the western edge. Perhaps it was a dwelling, a boundary marker, or a child circle drawn by hands that never learned to build tall. The land kept the shape long after the names disappeared, proving that size does not decide whether a place remembers.
In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Circular area (21m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by low earthen bank (int. H 1.1m), stone faced in parts to W; external fosse to W (D 0.6m). Field boundary atop bank at S. Gap in bank to ENE.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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