What is recorded here

Fairy forts are often called raths because they are earthen rings built by human hands, and Annakisha North holds one such ring beside a farm road. The bank stands about a metre high around a thirty-metre grassy circle, with a shallow ditch outside and another ringfort nearby. People may have lived there, fenced stock, or simply marked the land before the field took the shape back. The fairies enter only when the human part is forgotten.

In pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.15m); external fosse (D 0.6m). Enclosure heavily overgrown; during previous visit (OPW, 1974) entrance noted to E. Farm roadway skirts site to E. Second ringfort (CO025-06602-) lies c. 10m to NE. 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

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