What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Cullenagh, County Cork. A low circular rise, thirty-one metres across, still marks the ringfort on a gentle south-west slope above a small stream. People may have lived there before carts and ploughs levelled most of the earthwork. The name suggests they also believed the place belonged to unseen neighbours, and they left it alone.

In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope, overlooking small stream. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured semicircular arc NE->SW on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps; circle completed by broken line on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; circular area (31m E-W; 28m N-S) enclosed by low rise survives. 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 or earthen ringfort in Cullenagh, likely dating to the early medieval period, is associated with local folklore of fairy activity and otherworldly beings. Its depiction on 19th- and early 20th-century Ordnance Survey maps suggests a partially eroded or modified structure, possibly linked to both agricultural and ritual use.

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