What is recorded here

Half a mile from the church, a broken ring of earth still holds its shape above a small stream. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the gaps and causeway made it feel like a doorway rather than a house. It may have been a farmstead, a refuge, or a marker for boundary and belief. The fairies may have inherited it later, taking what humans stopped using.

In tillage, on S-facing slope, above small stream. Circular area (37.3m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2m); external fosse (D 1.2m); second earthen bank (H 2m) surviving SE->W. Gap in banks to S; second gap in inner bank to NE, with causeway. Interior slopes down to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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