What is recorded here

Caheraphuca is a fairy fort in County Cork, Ireland. It is a circular earthen ringfort, about 21 metres across, with a low bank and faint interior mounds that may mark old hut sites. It sits on an east-facing slope in rough grazing, partly cut through by a field boundary. People may have lived there, or the fairies may have taken the place from them.

In rough grazing, on E-facing slope. Circular area (21.1m N-S; 21.8m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.6m) N->W. Field boundary cuts through NE quadrant. Low undulations in interior may be remains of hut sites (CO127-019001-). 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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