What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Carrigeen, County Cork: a 29-metre circular earthwork with a low bank and outer ditch, partly cut by a townland boundary. The centre rises above the perimeter, suggesting a lived or marked place rather than a random mound. People may have gathered, hidden, or worshipped there before ploughing softened its edges.

In ploughed field, on break in SW-facing slope. Circular, slightly raised area (29m N-S) defined by low bank (int. H 0.3m) NW->S, with external fosse to N and SSE. Townland boundary cuts off bank S->NW from remainder of enclosure; no visible surface trace of enclosure to W of boundary. Centre of interior higher than perimeter. 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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