What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Dunbittern West is an earthen ringfort atop a drumlin in County Cork, Ireland. Its bank stands 2.95m high around a shallow external fosse, with two wide breaks facing SE and WSW. People may have lived there, herded animals there, or refused to admit the fairies already owned it.

In pasture, atop drumlin. Roughly circular area (31m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.95m); shallow external fosse. Break in bank to SE (Wth 6.2m) and WSW (Wth 6.5m). Slight depression concentric with inside bank NNW->NW; low rise (H 0.2m) inside this N->E. 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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