Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
In rough pasture, on lower slope of NE side of Claragh Mountain at foot of precipitous rise to mountain top. Roughly circular area (39m E-W; 33m N-S) enclosed by inner earthen bank (int. H 1.8m; ext. H 3m); intervening fosse (D 0.5m) NW->ESE; outer earthen bank (max. ext. H 1.4m) NW->ESE. Inner bank grass-covered and overgrown with thinly spaced trees and bushes; external face lower (ext. H 1.4m) on upslope and stone-faced SE->NW. Causewayed entrance (Wth 3.8m) to ENE. Intervening fosse best preserved NW->NE; large concentration of small stones dumped in fosse to S of causeway. Outer bank grass-covered; lowest to NW. Interior raised on NE side to compensate for hillslope; souterrain (CO039-05302-) 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
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.