What is recorded here
Derreendangan holds a circular earthen ring atop a drumlin, preserving a boundary where human life and fairy belief both refused to fade. The fort measures thirty-five metres north-south and thirty-six metres east-west, enclosed by a one-and-a-half-metre bank with a shallow outside ditch on the north side. It still stands in pasture, not as a dead shape but as a threshold: a place where visibility, memory and exclusion become one.
In pasture, atop drumlin. Circular, raised area (35m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.5m), with external fosse to N (D 0.5m).
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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