What is recorded here

Kilbreanbeg holds a broken earth bank facing the Slieve Mish Mountains, where cattle now cross the gap and loosen stones spill downslope. The survey marked the arc on imperial maps, but the land kept its own shape, raising the interior against the slope and waiting for human eyes. What the fort guarded is no longer written, only the view remains, broad and empty, with the mountain ridge answering back.

In pasture, on the edge of a NE-SW terrace on a NW-facing slope, with commanding views N to the Slieve Mish Mountains. An arc (C 27.5m) of an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.7m) SW-NE is partially obscured by bushes and has intermittent traces of stone facing along its internal face. The sloping external face of the bank is being eroded, with earth and loose stones spilling downslope. There is a cattle break (Wth c. 1m) at W. The level interior, which is under pasture, is raised (H 1m) at NW to compensate for the natural slope. This rath is indicated as a semicircular enclosure abutting the townland boundary at S on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. On the 1893-4 OS 6-inch map, a raised area is defined by an arc of hachures SW-E. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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