What is recorded here

No visible monument remains, only a faint circular shadow in the soil and a field boundary that follows the ghost of the bank. The fort is erased from human memory but not from the land, which is why it became a fairy fort: the shapes that refuse to be named or measured become the domain of what cannot be questioned. Lackendarragh does not preserve a castle or hall; it preserves the moment human making thinned into suggestion.

In tillage, on W-facing slope. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W387), except where respected by field boundary to S. Arc formed by light-coloured band of soil visible to W and N; field boundary to S appears to incorporate remains of bank (int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.6). Roadway skirts bank to S. May be levelled single-ramparted ringfort (diam. c. 31yd) recorded by Bowman (1934, 548) on Denis O'Connell's land. 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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