What is recorded here

No visible trace remains of the Ardglass ringfort because local residents levelled the earth in the late 1970s or early 1980s. A May 1977 aerial photograph still caught its circular bank as a faint soil mark before the pasture erased it. The lost ridge may have marked a home, a boundary or a forgotten gathering place, but the land itself has forgotten the shape.

In pasture, on SSE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured subrectangular enclosure (c. 20m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1905 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 20m) on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to local information, circular in shape and levelled late 1970s/early 1980s. Circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R611; dated May 1977) as soilmark of bank. Levelled ringfort (CO007-031---) in adjoining field to NNW. 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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