What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Bawnmore is a circular earthen ringfort forty-five metres across, holding a six-metre entrance and ruined stone facing on a gentle east-facing slope. It is the kind of place where human hands built a home, changed it into pasture, and let the story drift into fairy legend because the shape still refuses to explain itself.

In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Circular area (45.5m N-S; 43.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.3m); external fosse (D 1.45m) to N, hallow fosse elsewhere. Remains of stone facing along upper part of bank to N, where incorporated into field fence system; lower half of bank much wider. Ruined stone facing also noted to W. Entrance (Wth 6m) to ESE. Remains of cultivation ridges cross interior on E-W axis. 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

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Bawnmore, likely dating to the early medieval period, is characterized by a circular enclosure with an internal earthen bank and an external fosse. Local folklore often associates such sites with supernatural beings or ancient druidic activity.

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