What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Cooliney, County Cork: a circular earthen ringfort, about 25 metres across, with a bank, shallow outer ditch and a broken side where a field cut through. It stands in pasture beside two other old circular places, one possibly moated to the east and one levelled to the west. People may have lived, stored or marked territory there before the land was divided; the fairies, in local story, took what remained.

In pasture. Circular, slightly raised area (25.6m NW-SE; 25.5m NE-SW) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.15m) NNE->ESE and SW->NW, with external fosse (D 0.25m); scarp ESE->SW. Enclosure truncated on NNW side by field boundary. Possible moated site (CO007-04302-) lies c. 40m to E; levelled circular enclosure (CO007-042---) lies c. 50m to WNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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