What is recorded here

The earthen bank stands 3.45 metres high in Brownstown, a thirty-metre circle where human hands met fairy law. It is a fort in name and function, a boundary marker in pasture where the visible world ends and the hidden one begins. The seam between both is not a suggestion. It is a wall.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by earthen bank (H 3.45m) SE->SSW, incorporated into the field fence system. Interior cuts into upslope to N. Locally known as "fort". 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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