What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Dromskarragh More is a circular earthen enclosure on a south-facing slope above a stream, mapped since 1842. Its bank stands about a metre high where it survives, choked with briars and gorse, while pasture fills the middle. People may have lived there before the field swallowed the truth, but the shape still holds its ground at the edge of the fall.

In pasture, on S-facing slope, on edge of sharp fall down to stream bed. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (c. 45m N-S) on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps; S bank reduced to scarp on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Roughly circular area (48m E-W; 42.5m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1m) W->E; levelled elsewhere, visible as low rise. Bank overgrown with briars and gorse. Interior under pasture. 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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