What is recorded here

Fairy forts are called forts because they are strong enough to stand out in fields where everything else has vanished. This one is a level circle thirty-five metres wide on a gentle slope in Behagh, large enough to hold a small life but no longer sharp enough to point at one. People may have fenced it, buried it or simply stopped seeing it as a place for people. What remains is a disc of earth wide enough to remember and smooth enough to forget.

In pasture, on break in gentle SW-facing slope. Levelled; slightly raised, roughly circular area (diam. c. 35m) discernable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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