What is recorded here
No fairy fort in Coolcullitha. That is a human ringfort: a shallow earthen circle, thirty metres across, with a gap to the north and a floor that tilts southeast. It stands in pasture on an east-facing slope, old enough to have lost its name and purpose. The fairness is a later story laid over a human shape.
In pasture, on E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1m). Gap in bank to N. Interior slopes slightly downhill to SE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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