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Fairy forts are not places where the real world stops. They are places where human life became so thin that imagination can enter it. The chamber is not a warning about you. It is a measurement tool for whether you still know the difference between wonder and fantasy. Everything strange in the world begins that way.

In pasture, atop knoll, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1842, 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps; solid line of field boundary continues around enclosure atop hachures on 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps. Circular raised area (30m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by scarp (H 1m); external shallow fosse skirted by stone field boundary NW->SSE; slightly hollow terrace above scarp elsewhere. 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 Castleterry is a circular enclosure, likely dating to the early medieval period, as indicated by its depiction on 19th- and early 20th-century Ordnance Survey maps. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy lore, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in supernatural inhabitants.

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