What is recorded here

Cathair Daithi holds a circular earthen fort thirty metres across, its broken bank and shallow fosse now choked with coniferous trees on a ridge above the Sullane River. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the green chaos hid the human shape or because the dead still move where living memory has thinned. The conifers do not understand borders; they swallow the distinction between human and fairy, leaving only a ridge of shadow where a house or hollow once stood.

In pasture, atop E-W ridge overlooking Sullane River valley to N. Circular area (c. 30m N-S) defined by earthen bank (H 1.6m) with external fosse (D 0.65m) S->N. Bank highest internally on E side; break (Wth 2m) to N. Field boundary skirts fosse S->NNW. Interior, bank and surviving fosse planted with coniferous trees. Ringfort (CO070-057001-) lies 30m to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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