What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Cahermore, County Cork: a 28-metre earthen ring on a south-facing pasture slope, with a shallow outer ditch and a stone-faced entrance facing east. Local tradition adds an underground passage, but no tunnel is visible in the description given. The fort is small enough to walk around in a minute, yet large enough to hold a household, a herd, or a story about what people buried beneath ordinary ground.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (28m N-S; 31.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.1m); external fosse (D 0.3m) to SE. Stone-faced entrance (Wth 2.4m) to E. Trees planted in interior. Local tradition of Man-made underground passage (CO134-103---). 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

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cahermore is a circular early-medieval defensive or domestic site, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD, characterized by an earthen bank and fosse. Local tradition references a "Man-", possibly indicating a historical or legendary figure associated with the site, and such forts are often linked in folklore to the supernatural or fairy realms in Irish tradition.

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