What is recorded here

Kilbarry holds a rectangular moated site where a living stream cuts two sides of a forty-five-metre earth enclosure. Bowman measured it in 1934 as a fifty-yard square fort on Dennehy land, yet the water has since erased or softened the boundaries he recorded. The remaining banks and scarp suggest people used the floodplain deliberately, turning local rainfall into a defensible or domestic shape rather than fighting it.

On level ground, on W bank of stream. Rectangular area (45m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE) defined by low earthen bank along N half of NE side, by scarp (H 2m) on SE side, by earthen bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.5m) on SW side; bank levelled on NW side. Stream forms fosse on NE and SE sides. Interior level, with rise up to E and S corners. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 420) as single-ramparted 'square fort, each side being 50 yards' on Mr Dennehy's land. 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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