What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Carrigeencullia, County Kerry, is a 34-metre earthen ringfort on a south-facing pasture slope, its broad bank and outer ditch now smothered in overgrowth. The southeast causeway leads inward, and a possible underground passage may still hide beneath the floor. People may have lived there, marked territory, or simply avoided the place after dark. Either way, the earth remembers the shape of human hands and the patience of centuries.

In pasture, on a S-facing slope with views SE to the Paps of Dana. A circular area (diam. 34m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 8.6m; int. H 1.9m; ext. H 3.3m) and an external fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 1.7m), both of which are covered with overgrowth. There is a causeway entrance (Wth 2.5m) at SE. The bank is damaged and large stones are piled in the fosse and against the external face of the bank SE-S. The interior, largely obscured by overgrowth, slopes down gently to the S, where it is raised (H 1.5m) to compensate for the natural slope. There is a possible Man-made underground passage (KE067-027001-) in the interior. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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