What is recorded here
In pasture, atop E-W ridge known as Compass Hill, overlooking Kinsale to NE. Low, roughly circular mound (15m N-S; 16m E-W; H 0.5m); very faint depression on NE side (wth c. 15m; running c. 40m to field fence). Marked as 'the mound upon the Hill' on 1601 map (O'Neil 1940, facing 111); used as observation post and firing platform by Spanish during siege of Kinsale in 1601. O'Neil (ibid.) suggests this 'appears to be a round barrow' but current visible form too eroded to identify original form.
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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