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In pasture, atop hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured roughly oval enclosure on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps, incorporated into field boundary system to N; open to SSE on 1938 OS 6-inch map. According to local information, levelled c. 1962. Oval area (27.2m N-S; 22.7m E-W) defined by low rise NE->NW and by earthen stone-faced field boundary elsewhere. Fosse survives as slight depression to E. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 568) as fort 'in Elizabeth MacSweeney's, practically levelled' (diam. c. 25yd).
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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