What is recorded here
Half a moon of earth in Gortacrue, open to the west, thirty-five metres across before the plough took it. The shape still belongs to the field even though no ridge remains to touch. A ringfort nearby waits two hundred metres further west, suggesting the land once held more than one circle of ownership or defence. The fort may have been a home, a boundary marker, or a small stronghold where people lived under an open sky. Its absence does not erase it; the field remembers the curve because the soil was shaped by human hands.
In tillage. Shown on 1935 OS 6-inch map as semi-circular enclosure open to W (diam. c. 35m N-S). Levelled; no visible surface trace. Possible ringfort (CO065-076---) c. 230m to W.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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