What is recorded here

Fairy forts hide plain sight, but Dromaneen keeps its shape in a low arc stretching north-east to south-west. The earth still rises where a circular enclosure once stood, and a possible standing stone waits eighteen metres south in the same field. Cattle graze across the buried rampart, unaware they walk on top of a forgotten house. The fort does not need belief to be real, yet it still belongs to the people who stopped asking questions about it.

In level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; arc (diam. c. 33m) formed by low rise NNE->SSW. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 588) as levelled, single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 39yd) on J. Curtin's land. Possible standing stone (CO032-09502-) c. 18m to S in same field. 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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