What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Blossomfort, County Cork, is a broken earthen ringfort where a field fence now cuts through its surviving bank. The circular shape still appears in aerial photographs as a pale line and shadow, proving the earth remembers what people stopped seeing. Local people may have filled the ditch or built fences across it because a clear boundary suited living better than an empty circle suited wondering.

In tillage, on gentle NE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; bank incorporated into field fence system SE->N on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; E side depicted as open, hachured as scarp on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps respectively. Roughly circular area (48m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by low scarp N->NW; overgrown scarp (H 1.2m) survives in field fence system NW->N. According to local information, fosse infilled recently with earth. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP). 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

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