What is recorded here

Forty-five metres of compacted earth still hold their shape on the south-east slope, though a road fence now completes what the scarp abandoned. The fort is large enough for herds, tools and argument, yet small enough that every resident would have known the smell of each other's fear. Fairies may have taken it later, but people built it first, and people must have bled on that soil before the magic arrived to inherit the hole.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (45m N-S; 44m E-W) defined by scarp (H 1.6m) NNE->S; road-side fence elsewhere; shallow external fosse to E and S. 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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