What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not places to tease. They belong to the CluaSI, the hidden people, and they answer mockery with misdirection. Lose a child in one and it may return aged, or never return at all. This is no game.

In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope, near top of hill. Faint trace of site as circular depression in field; locally known as site of fort. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 395) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 30yd) on Mr Foley's land. 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

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Bawnmore South, likely dating to the early medieval period, is marked by a circular depression on a hilltop, suggesting a single-ramparted structure. Locally associated with fairy folklore, such sites were often believed to be entrances to the Otherworld or inhabited by supernatural beings in Irish tradition.

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