What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Creagh More is a 40-metre earthen ring on a SE-facing Cork slope, with a buried passage in the south-east and a raised interior that balances the hill. It is the kind of place where people once drew a line around the living world and called the inside theirs. The fairy name does not dismiss that act; it admits the edge still belongs to something else.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (37m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by earthen bank (H 1.8m) NNE->ESE; scarp ESE->W; stone wall W->N; external fosse (D 0.7m) NNE->E. Interior raised on S side to compensate for hillslope; Man-made underground passage (CO135-082002-) in SE quadrant. 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

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Creagh More, likely dating to the early medieval period, is characterized by a circular enclosure with a prominent earthen bank, scarp, and stone wall. Local folklore often associates such sites with fairy activity, and they were historically viewed with both reverence and caution by local communities.

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