What is recorded here

Barretts By. held a forty-metre earthen ring on a south-facing slope, visible in nineteenth-century surveys before local work flattened much of it. The landowner called it a fairy fort, a name that often masks an ordinary human boundary or dwelling. What remains is a shallow circular depression with low rises, yet the shape still resists forgetting.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps; as circular area (diam. c. 30m) surrounded by fosse on 1939 OS 6-inch map. According to landowner, levelledc. 1978; interior defined by two banks. Survives as circular area enclosed by shallow depression with low rise on either side. Crop mark in aerial photograph (CASAP) also shows evidence of outer bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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