What is recorded here

Cloonee Fort is a 50-metre oval rath on a south-facing Cork slope, its earthen bank still standing 1.7 metres high despite cultivation ridges cutting through the interior. The wide six-metre gap at the southeast and narrower openings elsewhere suggest deliberate access rather than decay, perhaps marking where people entered to tend fields or withdraw from storms. Local tradition calls it a fairy fort, reminding us that the boundary between human residence and excluded land remains porous in West Cork memory.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Oval area (50.1m N-S; 44m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.7m), stone faced in parts; external fosse (D 0.4m) NNW->SE. Shallow depression (D 0.3m) inside bank E->SW. Gaps in bank to NNE (Wth 0.6m), SSE (Wth c. 6m) and W (Wth 1.1m). Cultivation ridges cross interior on N-S axis. 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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