What is recorded here

Kilgobnet held a thirty-metre earthen ring on a hilltop, large enough to keep out rain and small enough to force everyone inside to share one fire. Farmers later flattened the bank and folded the fort into ordinary tillage, yet the field still marks the old line with a pale band of stoney soil. The land swallowed the shape but did not erase the boundary, proving that human pride and soil memory are not the same thing.

In tillage, atop hill. Depicted as hachured subsquare enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps; external fosse hachured to S on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; circular area (29m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by band of light coloured stoney soil (Wth 2.6m). Interior soil cover darker in colour than surrounding field. Circular enclosure visible as shadow site of fosse, most clearly visible to S, in aerial photograph (CASAP). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 539-40) as single-ramparted fort (diam. 31yd) on P. O'Callaghan's land, defined by bank (H c. 8ft) with external fosse (Wth 14ft; D 3ft). In Barry's (1981, 83, no. 46) list of moated sites for County Cork, from cartographic evidence. 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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