What is recorded here

Claragh Beg holds a thirty-two metre earthen ring on a northwest slope, where a raised interior compensates for the tilt of the land. People may have lived inside that bank, watched the pasture, or abandoned it before the stones disappeared into grass. The fairies never left. They still walk the hidden room, waiting for someone foolish enough to enter at midnight.

In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Circular area (32m N-S) defined by earthen bank (H 1.3m) SE->WNW; scarp (H 1m) WNW->NNE; low rise elsewhere. Interior raised especially on NW side to compensate for hillslope. 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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