What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Dungourney, County Cork: a circular earthen ring about 35m across, now broken into farmland but still marked by a low rise and an underground passage inside. It belongs to the old Irish landscape of raths and hidden doors, where human hands shaped the earth and later memory turned the shape into fairy work. The field may have swallowed the entrance, yet the passage still exists beneath the soil, waiting for someone brave enough to stop pretending the ground is empty.

In tillage, on E-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by low rise. Man-made underground passage (CO066-00602-) in interior. 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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