What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Camus (ibane and Barryroe By., Rathbarry Par.) is a circular earthen ringfort in West Cork grassland, with a 2.7m bank on the south and west and a narrower scarp elsewhere. People may have lived there, marked territory, or simply followed the shape the land already suggested. The fairies, according to local story, took the fort and made it their own.

In grassland, on break in SE-facing slope. Circular area (33m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.7m) SE->SW; scarp elsewhere (H 1m); external fosse SE->SW (D 0.4m) and to NW (D 1m). 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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