What is recorded here

Loumanagh South holds a broad earthen ring on a ridge above a marshy glen, its causewayed entrance still pointing east despite bushes choking the banks. Bowman measured a smaller fenced hole inside the main circle in 1934, suggesting the site carried more than one layer of human claim. The fairies may have taken the name, but the soil remembers every foot that crossed its threshold.

In pasture, on ridge of high ground, with land sloping down to S to marshy glen. Circular area (internal diam. 27.4m E-W; 27m N-S) enclosed by inner earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.45m); intervening fosse; outer earthen bank ( ext. H 1m) SE->W. Break in inner bank to NW (Wth 2.2m) and N (Wth 2.5m). Causewayed entrance ( Wth 2.6m) to ESE. Banks heavily overgrown with bushes. Interior raised above level of surrounding field. Bowman (1934, 519) recorded 'a low fence, c. 2 ft. high. enclosing c. 25 sq. yards' in 'SW of interior'; within 'this enclosure is a hole 8ft. by 4 by 1ft 6in deep'. Outer bank is shown on sketch by Bowman (ibid.) as wide (c. 7yd), flat topped apart from narrow rise along outer face. 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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