What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Burnfort, County Cork: a circular earthen ring, fifty metres across, with a one-metre-deep outer ditch and a second low bank beyond it. Its west-facing gap aligns with the slope, while a modern road has cut through part of the ditch. Inside lies a man-made underground passage, hidden beneath pasture and memory. People may have lived here, feared here, or simply passed by and called it a fairy fort because the shape resisted ordinary explanation.

In pasture, on W-facing slope. Circular area (51.5m N-S; 50.5m E-W) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.7m) with external fosse (D 1.2m) and counterscarp bank (H 0.8m). Bank stone-faced externally to SE; gap (Wth 6m) to WSW. Roadway running N-S truncates fosse and counterscarp bank on W side. Man-made underground passage (8855) in interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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