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In pasture, atop cliff edge on E bank of Rathcool River. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as roughly circular bivallate enclosure defined on W side by straight cliff face on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Roughly oval area (40.5m N-S; 32.5m E-W) defined by two earthen banks (inner bank: int. H 1.1m; ext. H 2.85m; outer bank: H 0.5m) to N, E and S, with intervening fosse (D 2.05m) and shallow external fosse (D 0.5m); straight cliff edge to W. Causewayed entrance (Wth 3.1m) to ESE; causewayed break (Wth 1.5m) in bank to SSW. Interior grass-covered; slopes down to W.
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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