Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, just below brow of gently rolling hill. Pear-shaped area (86m E-W; 58m N-S) defined by nearly levelled earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m) with shallow external fosse. Short length of bank incorporated into or replaced by earthen field boundary on W side; very low inner height of bank ENE->SW. Interior undulating; boggy area (34m N-S; 18m E-W) in NE quadrant defined on W side by low bank. Linear bank (H 0.5m) extends from SW bank for c. 22m in SW direction to field boundary; fosse (D 0.5m) at S side of bank. Smaller circular enclosure (diam. c. 18m) abuts enclosure to E, defined by low bank with external fosse SSE->NW; on W side shares fosse with enclosure; break in bank to W and E; interior slightly undulating and sloping gently down to NE. Annexes accreted on NW and NE side of enclosure, mainly defined by low bank and external fosse and sharing fosse of main enclosure; NW annexe roughly D-shaped (straight side c. 27m NE-SW; projecting c. 19m to NW); N annexe roughly subrectangular (20m E-W; 14m N-S); NE annexe roughly subrectangular (16m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE). A fourth annexe (20m N-S; 24m E-W) adjoins N side of NW annexe; at W side of interior is possible fulacht fiadh (11760). Remains of similar enclosure (13724) in Ballyphilibeen townland c. 6.8km to SW.

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

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 42/1976).