What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Desert, County Cork: a circular earthen ringfort on a north-west slope below the hilltop, mapped in 1842 but no longer visible. It may have been a farmstead, a boundary marker, or a child’s runaway road; the earth forgot which.

In pasture, on NW-facing slope, just below hilltop. Circular enclosure on OS 6-inch map (1842). No visible surface trace. 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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