What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Clonbouig, a circular earthen ringfort thirty-six metres across, still holds its shape on the western edge of an east-west ridge in County Cork. Its one-metre bank and shallow outside ditch mark a deliberate boundary, while the raised interior shows someone learning the slope before building upon it. The southeast entrance faces the open land, inviting entry rather than hiding it. People may have lived there, tended animals, or simply remembered the shape as a fairy fort because it belonged before human records began.
In pasture, on W end of E-W ridge. Circular area (35.8m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1m) with shallow external fosse. Entrance to SE. Interior raised (H 3m) on W side to counteract hillslope.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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