What is recorded here

Morgan's fort is a ruined earthen ring in Rathmorgan pasture, its shallow trench and wet interior preserved beside the railway. It is not a fairy tale, though locals may have called it one when human memory thinned. The measurements and damage are clear: a lived place, reduced to shape.

In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (42.7m N-S; 34.3m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 1.2m) with external fosse (max. D 0.5m). Shallow fosse increases in width from 4.4m to 16m on N side. Depression (D 0.7m; 21.8m N-S; 18.5m E-W) in interior; surface wet and marshy. Railway line runs N-S 40m to W of enclosure. 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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