What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Clashanure: two banks, one ditch, sixty metres across. The top bank stands two metres high, the bottom one metre, and a gap runs between them. An opening faces southeast. A dark passage may still hide beneath the grass. People called it a fairy fort because the shape suggested more than farming. Perhaps it was a home, a shelter, or a boundary marker. The earth remembers hands that built it, even when the names have faded.

In tillage. Heavily overgrown circular area (diam. 60m) defined by two earthen banks (inner bank: H 2m; outer bank: H 1m) with intervening fosse. According to Hartnett (1939, 132), entrance to SE. Possible Man-made underground passage (CO072-113002-) in interior. 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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