What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Derryorgan: a circular bivallate enclosure, two banks and fosse, now quarried into its southern half and reduced to a shallow raised platform on a west-facing slope. It appeared on the 1842 map with a lime kiln at its centre, suggesting people still worked the ground inside what tradition calls a fairy fort. The quarry did not erase it; it revealed how much of the ring remains hidden beneath ordinary farmland.

In tillage, on gentle W-facing slope. Depicted as hachured multivallate oval enclosure (c. 40m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with lime kiln at centre; as hachured arc formed by central raised area enclosed by fosse WSW->ESE on 1937 OS 6-inch map, with S portion removed by quarry. According to local information, interior enclosed by two banks and levelled c. 1967. Circular slightly raised platform survives, defined by shallow fosse with external low rise SSW->SE; quarry extends into S half of interior. Circular bivallate enclosure visible as cropmark of two fosses in aerial photograph (CASAP), quarried into to S. 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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