What is recorded here

A 35-metre earthen ring stood on a gentle southeast-facing slope in Ardglass, visible in aerial photographs as a faint soilmark until local residents levelled it during the late 1970s or early 1980s. The land now holds only a slight arc where the bank disappeared, preserving the shape of a home, workshop, or worship place that people used before it became a story about fairies.

In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) with external fosse to W on 1936 OS 6-inch map. According to local information levelled late 1970s/early 1980s. Circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R611; dated May 1977)) as soilmark of bank. Arc formed by slight rise in area of site may mark line of levelled bank. Levelled possible ringfort (CO007-032---) lies c. 110m to SSE in adjoining field. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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