What is recorded here
Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed because they look abandoned and complete. Cloghboola More is different: its round bank has been levelled into a shallow saucer, leaving only a low eastern rise and a field full of forgotten shape. The fairies never lived there. People did, built a small defensible home, then left it to rot while the name changed to suit wonder.
In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) with external fosse on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; saucer-shaped depression in field (diam. c. 28m); low rise along line of levelled bank most noticeable to E and SE.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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