What is recorded here

Indicated preserves a fifty-metre earthen arc beside a lost Cork church, its boundary swallowed by pasture and farm fences. Power traced the faint circular outline in 1932, proving that human hands once drew a sacred limit around ordinary soil. The church is gone, but the curve remains: a quiet instruction that even forgotten places can be recovered when someone learns to read what they leave behind.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Arc NW->N (C 50m) of earthen bank (H 0.8m) with external fosse to N, incorporated into field boundary system c. 50m to NNE of church site (14495). Power (1932, 124) describes 'the outline of a former circular enclosing bank' around church as 'faintly traceable' in field fence to N as well as in 'the field surface itself (Regan's farm)'. Section of earth and stone field fence (H 1m) immediately E of site of church is curved (C 20m) and may incorporate part of inner enclosure or graveyard boundary. 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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