What is recorded here

Fairy forts are earthen rings from the remote past, often holding house remains, and people once believed they belonged to hidden lives rather than ordinary neighbours. In Corries or Corrymore that belief may have grown from the ring itself: a made circle, set apart, large enough to contain rooms or rituals now lost. The fort does not need a magical label to be strange. It is a place where human hands shaped the land, marked ownership or identity, and waited for memory to return.

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Aerial photograph (GSI S 279) shows ringfort divided by field boundary. Approximately circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by stone and gravelly earth bank with boulder facing (H 0.7-1.0m; Wth 1m). Original entrance at SSE (Wth 1.3m). Interior shows some evidence of former, possible original, divisions: (1) line of boulders (L 3m) suggests foundation of wall running N from close to entrance; (2) oval area adjacent to bank at SE defined by large boulders and bulge in bank at SE. To N of field boundary, site is levelled except at E, but is visible as soil mark in recently ploughed field.

A fairy fort, also known as an earthen ringfort or rath, in Corries or Corrymore is a circular earthwork enclosure typical of early-medieval Ireland, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. Local tradition associates such sites with the faé or supernatural beings, and they were often considered sacred or magical places in Irish folklore.

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