What is recorded here

Enclosure in Barnahely holds a complex of interlocking fosses near Castle Warren, waiting beneath the soil for someone to walk its hidden lines. The ditches may have marked kitchens, byres or sacred ground during bronze or iron age life, yet no standing wall remains to prove which. A road once threatened to carve through the quiet field, forcing the earth to give up its shape before the machines arrived. What was buried is no longer lost, but it still resists easy belief because the ground keeps its own counsel.

As part of the route selection process for the proposed N28 Bloomfield-Ringaskiddy road, a series of investigations, including geophysical survey, were undertaken to assess the archaeological potential of lands adjacent to the tower house (CO087-052001-), known as Castle Warren. Geophysical survey revealed a complex of features defined by fosses in an area c. 260m to the NE of the tower house (Roseveare and Roseveare 2004). This complex of features comprised a set of interlocking enclosures 'typical of bronze or iron age unenclosed settlement' (ibid.). 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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