What is recorded here

Doireach holds a forty-metre earthen ring on a steep slope, its northern bank broken by a seven-metre gap that may have guided footsteps across a causeway. The interior rises slightly to defeat the hill's tilt, proving human hands shaped the land rather than surrendering to gravity. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the gap invites imagination or the grass hides the truth. Either way, the circle still stands in pasture, waiting for someone to walk through its opening and remember that resistance requires measurement.

In pasture, on steep N-facing slope. Circular area (41m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m); external fosse (D 0.4m). Break in bank to N (Wth 7m), with possible causeway. Interior raised on N side to compensate for hillslope. 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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