What is recorded here

Marianne and her children walked beside the fort at Gneeves, where a disused road cut through the earthen ring and a limekiln still marked the western bank. They watched the carriage pass, knowing the eastern section had been levelled years before while the western curve remained hidden beneath grass. The children touched the cool soil and imagined the people who built the rampart, made lime and lived beside the road. Marianne smiled because the fort had not disappeared; it had waited for them to remember it.

In level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps, cut off-centre to WSW by disused roadway running NNW-SSE. According to local information, section of enclosure to E of roadway levelled c. 1981. Heavily overgrown, earthen bank (int. H 1.55m; ext. H 1.2m) survives on W side of roadway except at SSW; external fosse skirted by field boundary. Remains of limekiln in bank to SW and to N on line of bank. Recorded by Bowman (1934,542) as 'double-ramparted, each c. 12ft wide. Fosse 10ft. wide, 7ft. deep' with about two-thirds of 'outer rampart' levelled; possible Man-made underground passage (CO041-190---) 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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