What is recorded here

Farranalough holds a thirty-three metre earthen ring on a south-facing slope, marked by a preserved bank and a stone-filled ditch. People called it a fairy fort, yet it may have been a human home or field workshop before becoming a dumping ground for cleared rocks. The earth still shapes the pasture, waiting for imagination to complete what memory forgot.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (diam. 33m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.4m); external fosse survives to N, filled with stones and uprooted bushes. Interior used as dumping ground for field clearance material. Ó Ríordáin (1933, 61) mentions remains of outer bank. 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 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 10/1977).

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