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In tillage, atop hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; as hachured circular bivallate enclosure on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (internal diam. c. 29m N-S), cut off-centre to E by townland boundary running NNW-SSE. At W side of fence overgrown interior (internal dims. 11m E-W) defined by two earthen banks with intervening fosse and external fosse. Inner bank (ext. H 1.9m) heavily overgrown with internal face sloping gently down towards interior; intervening fosse (D 0.3m) waterlogged to W; outer bank (ext. H 1.4m) has sharper profile than inner bank; shallow external fosse survives to W; interior higher than outside field level. Enclosure levelled at E side of fence; traces of scarp visible to NE and E. Two levelled banks and intervening fosse visible NNW->S as cropmark in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W409), with remainder of enclosure S->NNW, on W side of townland boundary, overgrown. Possible souterrain (CO032-216---) in interior.
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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