What is recorded here

Carrigdownane Upper once held a forty-metre earthen ring, now vanished beneath tillage on a gentle north-facing slope. The 1842 survey captured its circular shadow before ploughs erased the mark. Fairy fort is the local name for that forgotten shape, preserving the idea that the ground still remembers what human hands removed.

In tillage, on gentle N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. 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

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