What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished Cork fort whose memory still bends a stone fence into a curve on a steep slope above the Glashaboy river. The fence is thicker than its neighbours and sweeps from north-northeast toward south, marking a boundary that may once have enclosed a home, a yard or a place of warning. The field gives back no wall, ditch or gate, yet the shape resists forgetting. That is enough to believe someone stood there, watched the east and changed the land before disappearing from it.

In tillage, on steep E-facing slope c. 150m from Glashaboy river; good view to E. Site shown as curve in field fence on all eds OS 6-inch map. Stone-faced field fence, more substantial than adjacent stretches, curves NNE->S. No other visible trace of site. Local tradition of fort in field. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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