What is recorded here

Fairy forts hide inside ordinary farmland, waiting for drought or ploughing to reveal their edges. In Clashanure, that is exactly what happens: barley bends into rings when rain fails, and people keep picking stones from the surface year after year. The land remembers a fort even when nobody lives there anymore.

In tillage, on W-facing slope above stream flowing N to join River Lee. According to landowner, tradition of ringfort here; 'rings' visible in barley and in soil during very dry conditions; stone picked off surface every year. 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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