What is recorded here

Coolduff is a circular earthen ringfort, about forty metres across, with two banks and a ditch between them. It sits on a south-facing pasture slope, now so thick with bushes that no one can walk inside. The fairies may have taken it back, or people may have simply stopped going there. Either way, the earth kept its shape while the world forgot the entrance.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Enclosure heavily overgrown with bushes; impassable. 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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