What is recorded here

Cnocan na Siogan, a partially levelled earthen ringfort in Currabally, wore a fairy name before it wore a human one. Whatever lived there first left a hole in the ground and a hole in the story.

Power (1923, 201) records 'partially levelled lios called Cnocán na Síogán' in this townland. Exact location not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Currabally, likely dating to the early medieval period, is recorded as "Cnocán na Síogán" in historical sources, reflecting both its archaeological and folkloric significance. Local tradition associates such sites with the faé or supernatural beings in Irish folklore.

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