What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fantasy. They are human settlements, farms, shelters and boundary marks that became unnamed when memory thinned. The real wonder is that ordinary life can disappear so completely it must be reinvented as magic.

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m). Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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