What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Corrabally is a broken earthen ring on a SE-facing slope, partly bank, partly scarp, partly fence, with an overgrown burial ground inside. It is the kind of place where human urgency has cooled into folklore: people died there, were set down there, and later the living called it fairy because the dead no longer answered. The circle is not complete, but it is still readable. A ring is a ring even when half of it has become pasture.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (40m N-S; 39m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank NNW->NE and SE->W (H 1m); scarp NE->SE; field fence W->NNW; shallow external fosse SE->SW. Burial ground (CO144-010002-) in overgrown interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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