What is recorded here

A broad, flooded ditch circles a twenty-metre earthen ring in Curraghgorm, while rubbish chokes the northern edge and vegetation strangles the rest. The name suggests people once believed fairies owned the fort, yet the shape and size match a human dwelling or defensive site. Whatever it was, the land has taken it back, leaving only a wet, hidden circle where visibility and memory have failed.

In pasture, on S-facing slope; site largely inaccessible due to overgrowth. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by heavily overgrown earthen bank; external fosse. Fosse is broad and flooded; N side filled with rubbish. 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

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