What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Corballybane is a circular earthen ringfort with a 2.2m bank, shallow outer ditch, causewayed northern entrance and an interior that slopes downward. It sits in tillage on a north-facing slope, where the shape still reads clearly despite farming and time. The name suggests people once placed it outside ordinary human ownership, as if the land itself had claimed back a room it remembered.

In tillage, on N-facing slope. Circular area (31.2m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.2m) and external fosse (D 0.8m); counterscarp bank (H 0.5m) W->N. Entrance to N with causeway. Interior slopes down to N. 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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