What is recorded here

Mortals may have built the fort, but the fairies took it over and still meet there when nobody watches. The ring stands forty metres across on a NE-facing slope beside the Owenbaun River, with a causeway entrance and a saucer-shaped interior that slopes downward like a bowl waiting for rain. Cows graze around it now, unaware that the ground beneath their hooves belongs to two kinds of life at once.

In pasture, on NE-facing slope, c. 300m W of Owenbaun River. Circular, raised area (40m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by low earthen bank (max. int. H 1m) ENE->S with intervening fosse and external bank (H 1.2m) all around; outer fosse (D 0.5m) to NW. Entrance to NE with causeway; slight evidence for stone facing at break (Wth 4m) in outer bank. Interior saucer-shaped, generally sloping down to NE. 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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