What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Brahalish: an oval earthen ring on a hillock, with a steep scarp and shallow outer ditch. It looks like a small fortress, but the shape and setting suggest a boundary marker or ritual place rather than a home. The land around it has changed little, which is why the ring still reads clearly in the pasture.

In pasture, atop hillock. Oval area (24.4m E-W; 19.9m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.8m) N->SE; scarp (H 2.2m) SE->N; external fosse (D 0.6m) NNE->SE; low counterscarp bank ENE->ESE. Field boundary atop scarp SW->NW. 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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