What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Farranbrien East is a circular earthen ringfort, thirty-three metres across, with a stone-topped bank and partial fosse in pasture. Its gaps face NNE and NNW, as if leaving doors for beings that do not walk like people. The interior slopes gently south-west, shaping a small room where rain, shadow and breath would have gathered. Whatever lived there is no longer named, but the circle still holds its shape against forgetting.

In pasture. Circular area (33.9m N-S; 32.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen, stone-topped bank (ext. H 1.6m); fosse survives NNE->ENE and S->NNW (D 0.65m). Gaps to NNE and NNW. Interior slopes gently to SSW. 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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