What is recorded here

In Rathranna, a circular earthen bank still rises beside pasture, its entrance curving inward like a claw closing on forgotten business. Bowman measured a wide fosse and tall rampart in the 1930s, but trees and briars have since strangled the fort, turning human angularity into fairy ambiguity. The overlap at the gate suggests exclusion rather than invitation: keep out what should not enter, or keep in what should not leave.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular raised area (37m E-W; 36m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m). Bank overgrown with trees and briars. Entrance (wth 5.5m) to ESE formed by most southerly bank end curving inwards as if to overlap with most northerly bank end; some stone facing noted here. Bowman (1934, 186) describes fort on C. Daly's land as 'single-ramparted. Fosse 10ft wide. 2ft deep. Rampart varies from 4 to 6ft'. 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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