What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed by legend, and Broghill North holds one: a levelled circular enclosure roughly fifty metres across on a gentle north-facing slope in County Cork. Its banks have worn to low rises, yet a second earthwork and shallow ditch still trace the shape beneath pasture. The name suggests something hidden or dangerous, but the evidence points to ordinary people building a defensible home or farmstead that time has softened into mystery.

In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, incorporated into field fence system on W side. Levelled; circular area (46.4m E-W; 43.8m N-S) enclosed by low rise (int. H 0.15m) to N, E and S, with shallow external fosse. Evidence for second bank as low rise (H 0.25m) NE->SSW, with shallow outer fosse (D 0.3m) to SE. Break in inner bank (Wth 5.4m) to NNW; shallow depression (L 16.4m) runs southwards from break into interior. 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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