What is recorded here

Carragraigue held a forty-metre earthen ring on a south-facing slope, visible in aerial photographs until ploughing erased it. The land swallowed the boundary, turning ancient stone and soil into ordinary tillage. What remains is a absent circle, remembered only through map lines and the story that fairies once lived there.

In tillage, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; fosse hachured SW->N on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph, incorporated into field boundary system to E and S (GSIAP, W392; July 1975). Levelled; no visible surface trace of site or adjoining field boundaries. Erroneously included in Mid-Cork Inventory, see inventory no. 8123. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 or earthen ringfort in Carragraigue is a circular early-medieval defensive or domestic site, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. It is associated with local folklore regarding fairies, as suggested by its common name, though specific traditions are not recorded.

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