What is recorded here

Fairy forts hide inside ordinary roads because humans keep using the old cuts. In Coolcraheen, a farm track curves along an earthen bank that may have formed a rath beside the underground passage. Cows still walk the arc, fences still trace the inner edge, and the land keeps its shape under the wheels. What looks like a roadway may be a forgotten boundary, still drawing life around its hidden centre.

In pasture, on the S-facing slopes of an E-W ridge. The arc of a farm roadway (L c. 80m) curves SW-N to the W of a Man-made underground passage (CO134-112001-). The outer arc of the roadway is delineated by an earthen bank with stone inclusions (Wth varies up to 4m; H up to 2m). It is largely obscured with overgrowth and displays intermittent traces of a recent stone wall along its inner face. The passage (Wth c. 5m) is in occasional use and the remains of an inner low bank are topped with an electric fence. The curving bank or banks delineating the road may incorporate the bank or banks of a rath associated with the Man-made underground passage (CO134-112001-). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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