What is recorded here

Creggannacourty held a double-walled fairy fort on a gentle north-facing slope, visible in barley and aerial photos long after ploughs levelled its earth. The circular enclosure stood within an ancient field system, suggesting neighbours farmed around it for generations. Its disappearance did not erase the shape, because the land still marks the boundaries beneath ordinary life.

In tillage, on gentle N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure planted with trees on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as bivallate enclosure on 1905 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular area enclosed by fosse on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; stunted growth of barley in area of site. Bivallate circular enclosure visible as cropmark of fosses in aerial photograph (CASAP). Ancient field system visible in surrounding field (ibid.). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 / earthen ringfort in Creggannacourty is a circular earthwork enclosure, likely an early-medieval ringfort (rath), used as a defensive or agricultural settlement. The site is associated with local folklore regarding fairy activity, common in Irish tradition for such mounds and enclosures.

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