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In pasture, on a low hill. A roughly circular raised area (27m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m) which is slightly denuded along the S and W arcs. The bank is stone-faced externally, especially along the S, SW and N arcs and there cattle gaps at S and NNW. Field boundaries (on NW-SE and NE-SW axes) have been incorporated into this bank along the NE and SE arcs. The interior is almost entirely occupied by a central circular mound (diam. 1.6m; H 0.1m) which is surrounded by three concentric earthen banks (Wth 1.4-2.3m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.1-0.5m) and an arc of a fourth bank (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.1m), which is evident NW-NE. This is probably the 'Danish Fort' described in the 1840s as being in the SE end of Ballynamaunagh (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 2, 5).
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
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