What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Caherkeen, County Cork, is a stone-and-earth ringfort on the lower NE-facing slope of Knocknagallaun. Its scarped and wall-edged circle measures about 28 by 25 metres, with a small off-centre hut foundation inside. People may have lived there, resisted rain, or simply marked a boundary the land still remembers.

On lower NE-facing slope of Knocknagallaun. Roughly circular area (27.7m N-S; 24.5m E-W) enclosed by scarp (H 2.2m) N->S, stone faced in parts; by ruined stone wall S->SW; and by sharp rise (H 1.4m) SW->NNW. Interior cuts into hillside to W and is raised on E side to compensate for downslope. Foundations of circular stone-built hut site (5.6m N-S; 6.1m E-W) off-centre to N. 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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