What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Cusovinna, County Cork: a broken earthen ring, 33 by 35 metres, with a shallow ditch and a two-metre gap facing east-north-east. Cultivation ridges still cross its interior, suggesting people worked the land inside long after the bank stopped being a boundary. The west side has eroded into pasture, yet the circle remains visible enough to walk and imagine.

In level pasture land NE of Mount Gabriel. Circular enclosure (33m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.3m); external fosse, D 1m NW->ENE, shallow elsewhere. Bank badly eroded to W; gap to ENE (Wth 2m); levelled for short section S of gap. Cultivation ridges cross interior on E-W axis. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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