What is recorded here

Half-buried in Clodah pasture, the fort keeps its shape against centuries of rain. A two-metre bank, a broken ditch, and a narrow eastern gap mark the edge of a small life long forgotten. People may have stood inside when the land was young, watching the valley or keeping animals from the dark. The earth has taken most of them back, but the circle remains, patient and unexplained.

In pasture, on E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (32.5m NNE-SSW; 28.3m E-W) defined by earthen bank (H 2m) S->NE; scarp (H 2.7m) elsewhere, with slight internal lip (max. H 0.4m) to E. External fosse (D 1.2m) survives to N; infilled SSW->NNW but line cleary visible. Low rises to NNE and ENE suggest presence of second bank. Outside scarp to E and SE is 4m wide terrace above second scarp (H 1.4m). Earlier plan (UCC) shows outer bank surviving N->SE and terrace SE->S. Gap (Wth 1m) in bank to E. Remains of cultivation ridges cross interior on ESE-WNW axis. 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

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Clodah, Cloghmacow, is a roughly circular early-medieval defensive or domestic site, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy lore, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in supernatural inhabitants.

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