What is recorded here

Forty centuries of rain and plough blades have not erased the circular shadow in Beenreagh pasture. The earthen bank still stands a metre and a half high beside a shallow ditch, watching the Crinnaloo River through grass that sways like water. People called it a fairy fort because human memory left a hole where the builders disappeared. What remains is a room large enough for one life, with no door and no roof, waiting to be entered by imagination.

In pasture, on NE-facing slope, overlookig Crinnaloo River. Roughlycircular area (32m N-S; 28.5m E-W) enclosed by scarp (H 0.85m) N->SE; earthen bank (int. H 1.45m) SE->W with external fosse (D 1.25m). Bankstone-faced in parts. Field boundary running NE-SW truncates enclosure on NW side. Limekiln marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map would have been located approximately at E side of enclosure; no visible surface trace. Slight lipvisible at base of bank due to ploughing of interior. Locally known as fort. 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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