What is recorded here

Indicated is a lost Cork ringfort whose bank disappeared under the plough around 1950. Local information preserves a ghost of its shape: pale stony soil circling darker earth, forty-one metres across, while a laneway still bends to respect its northern line. The fort has stopped being a fort and become a rhythm in the field, visible only when soil and memory align.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Semicircular field on both eds OS 6-inch map; levelled c. 1950. According to local information, levelled bank visible in ploughed field as band light-coloured stony soil, enclosing circular area of darker soil (diam. c. 41m NW-SE). Laneway respects line of enclosure to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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