forts historical cork

This is a circular fort, repaired before 1860, with a stone wall 95 feet in diameter.
It is entered at the north-east through a narrow entrance with a small sentry chamber on the right. Just to the left of the entrance is a stone with a cross inscribed on it.

In the interior of the fort are the foundations of a square building, at one corner of which is the entrance to a souterrain.
outside the entrance of the fort is a large boulder with cup-marks....

An earthen ringfort with concentric bank and ditch, with the remains of a monumental flat-headed stone doorway of A.D. C. 1000 on the eastern side....

The first fort was built here in the reign of Elizabeth I. Other Churches in this area include the South Chapel a Georgian Church of 1766 and St. Nicholas Protestant Church.

The Red Abbey on Mary St. of Douglas St is the sole survivor of the monasteries of medieval Cork. An augustinian Priory, it was founded in the 14th century....