What is recorded here

Double-ramparted Curraghcreen fort stood eighty feet across on H. Deady's land when Bowman measured it in 1934, its inner wall rising eight feet above a saucer-shaped floor. The realigned avenue to Rathnee House later cut the site in two, reducing the ancient boundary to a shallow scar and faint crop marks above Finnow stream. What remained was not a ruin but a warning about how quickly human arrogance erases the shapes that contained life.

In pasture, on W-facing slope, just above Finnow stream. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; single arc of hachures depicting scarp NNW->SSE, respected by avenue to Rathnee House, on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; realignment of avenue to house bisects site. Circular area (diam. c. 31m) defined by scarp (H 0.95m) to SE, with shallow external fosse; faint trace of shallow fosse W->NW, continues as differential crop growth NW->ENE. May be double-ramparted ringfort (diam. c. 33yd) recorded by Bowman (1934, 15) on H. Deady's land, with outer rampart levelled, inner rampart c. 8ft H and saucer-shaped interior. 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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