What is recorded here

Adrigool holds a thirty-metre earthen ring on a low ridge, its two-and-a-half-metre bank still standing despite heavy growth. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the shape defied easy explanation or because the dead and unseen still inhabit such places. A human hand built the circle, but the fairies may have claimed it back.

In pasture, on W end of low ridge. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by earthen bank (max. H 2.5m). Heavily overgrown. 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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