What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Dromkeen, County Cork, is a circular earthen ringfort, thirty-four metres across, set in pasture on a north-facing slope. Its bank stands one and a half metres high outside, with a three-and-a-half-metre gap to the north and cultivation ridges still visible across the interior. The site may hide a man-made underground passage, suggesting people shaped this place for residence, ritual, or both long before it became a field boundary.

In pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Circular area (34m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m). Field boundary atop bank to E incorporates outer half of bank. Break (Wth 3.5m) in bank to N;steep incline down to outside. Interior raised c. 2.9m on N side to compensate for hillslope; remains of cultivation ridges cross interior onE-W axis. Possible Man-made underground passage (CO082-098----) in interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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