What is recorded here

Fairy forts misname human ingenuity. Clashnagarrane is a stone-ringed house on a Kerry slope, its boundary marked by a low bank wide enough to walk beside and tall enough to lean against. The oval interior slopes westward beneath conifers, while a large rock outcrop anchors the northeast quadrant. A possible entrance opens at the southeast, and a hidden passage may still breathe beneath the north bank. The name fairy fort belongs to wonder, but the shape and setting belong to people who lived there, worked there, and left a boundary the land still remembers.

In pasture, on a W-facing slope. A roughly oval area (32m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.45m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m) which is low and denuded. The bank is covered with stones which may be from field clearance. The interior, which is covered in conifers, slopes from the E down to a break of slope in the W sector. There is a large rock outcrop in the NE quadrant. Loose stones are scattered in the interior, especially in the NE quadrant. A possible Man-made underground passage (KE058-082001-) is in the N sector and a possible hut site (KE058-082002-) is in the centre. There is a possible entrance through the bank at SE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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