What is recorded here

Mortons and Foy's accounts describe a circular rampart near Ballindangan that people still called a fairy fort. The name suggests more than stones: it implies a hidden door, a music or a warning not to dig where the ground feels angry. Whether or not fairies ever lived there, the ring marked a boundary between human pasture and a place the community chose not to explain.

In pasture, on level ground, above W-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured raised penannular area, on 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps, open to NW. Irregularly shaped area (26m E-W; 24m N-S) raised 0.9m above surrounding field; gorse and briars growing on scarp. Interior quarried into on N side. 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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