What is recorded here

Hawthorn still chokes the earthen bank of the Fairy fort in Baile Mhic Íre, marking a circular enclosure that has watched the southern slope since before human memory. The ring measures twenty-four metres across, with a scarped edge dropping a metre into the pasture where cattle now graze. It is the kind of place children avoid at dusk, not from fear of ghosts but from the certainty that the ground itself is listening. What the fort kept, who built it, and why it stands unchanged while villages rise and fall remain hidden beneath the brambles.

In pasture, on break in S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; surviving as arc in field fence system to N on 1903 and 1940 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (24m N-S) defined by earthen bank (H 1.8m) WNW->NE; scarp (H 1m) SE->WNW. Bank overgrown with hawthorn similar to surrounding field boundaries. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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