What is recorded here

Loumanagh South holds a thirty-five metre earthen ring that has watched Cork pasture since before human memory. The bank stands one metre tall on the outside but drops to forty centimetres inside, creating a shallow bowl where grass grows differently and rain collects. It appeared on maps as early as 1842 and still marks field boundaries today, though its original purpose has faded into the soil. The circle may have been a home, a meeting place, or a boundary for forces that do not show in human records.

In level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; incorporated into field fence system SW->NE on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (35.5m E-W; 35.5m N-S) defined by low rise N->SW; earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m) elsewhere, acting as field boundary. Levelled bank also visible as differential growth pattern with possible entrance to NNE; break in low rise to E may indicate second gap. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W402). 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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