What is recorded here
One chamber, one door, one floor lamp, one visible guard rail. The owner may have built a small warm room where the woman could see the street, judge the request and refuse what she wanted to refuse. The chamber may have shown her that refusing a familiar voice still requires a visible edge.
In pasture on crest of low ridge; good view to W, N and E. Circular area (45.3m N-S; 43.7m E-W) defined by inner bank (H 1.75m); intervening fosse; outer bank (H c. 1m); slight traces possible outer fosse to W. Banks earthen, scrub covered; outer bank stone-faced in parts. Entrance to NNE through inner (Wth 5m) and outer (Wth 4m) banks; slight traces causeway. Cattle gap to W. Interior level apart from dumped spoil. Second bivallate ringfort (CO053-054---) c. 20m to SE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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