What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not forts at all, but circular farmsteads from the middle ages. Farranmanagh holds one such ring, twenty-four metres across, with two earthen banks and a hollow between them. It sits on a south-facing slope in pasture, its entrance a narrow causeway at the east. Three more rings wait within four hundred metres to the east-north-east, a small neighbourhood of forgotten fields.

In pasture, on a S-facing slope. A circular area (diam. 24m) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.6m) and the intervening fosse (Wth 3.8m) are evident all round. The narrow remains of a possible outer bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.9m) are visible NE-N. The interior is slightly raised at S to compensate for the hillslope. A slight depression in the SE quadrant is obscured by furze bushes. There is a causeway entrance at E. Three other raths (KE057-014----, KE057-015----, KE057-016----) are c. 150m, c. 200m and c. 350m to the ENE, respectively. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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