What is recorded here

Flattened grass, buried trenches and one stubborn ridge still mark the fort beneath the deer park. It is not a distant ruin but a living edge: water, roots and feet have rewritten it since people stopped defending the line. The tree ring cuts across the old boundary like a later hand drawing a new circle over an older one.

In flat park land; within Deer Park of Doneraile demesne; in NW quadrant and adjoining NW side of large circular tree ring. Circular area (46m E-W; 42m N-S) defined by low rise (ext. H 0.36m); external fosse (D 0.24m); internal fosse (D 0.3m) SSE->N. Ridge forming arc and adjoining E bank cuts off sector of interior. Tree ring truncates fosse to NW. Inner fosse and internal partition may be later landscape features. Some large mature oak trees in 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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