What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not proven fairy homes, but people once lived inside these circular ditches and banks. Brade's fort is a shallow ring about thirty metres across, hidden in pasture on an NNW-facing slope. Trees still mark the enclosure that surveyors drew in 1842, while the earth has softened until the fort looks less like a boundary than like a breath held by the field.

In pasture, on break on NNW-facing slope. Circular enclosure planted with trees depicted on OS 6-inch map (1842). Circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by slight rise. No other visible surface trace. 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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