What is recorded here

No fairy ever flew there, though people believed it. The truth is a broken ring of earth and stones, old enough to predate every road and farm in Castletownroche. Humans made it, lived beside it, forgot it, and let sheep walk across the place where a door or boundary once stood. What is missing is not mystery, but witness.

In pasture, on break in NW-facing slope. Depicted as arc of hachures S->NNW on W side of N-S field boundary on 1935 OS 6-inch map. Arc (C 24m) survives as low earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m) S->NNW, with external fosse filled with field clearance stones. Bank broken by rock outcrop. Remainder of circular enclosure to E of field fence visible as cropmark of fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP). 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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