What is recorded here

Nine years after the last British soldier left Ireland, the new land surveyors drew a small round hut inside the earthworks. They knew the fort was empty, yet they recorded a home within it. The fairies had already moved back into the broken southeastern bank, taking the house that human ambition had forgotten.

In tillage, on E-facing slope. Circular area (48.3m E-W; 47.2m N-S) defined by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (H 2.6m) mainly grass-covered; break in bank to SE. Intervening fosse (D 1.9m) and outer bank (H 1m) partially overgrown with bushes and briars. Hachured circular hut site (diam. c. 10m) depicted in interior on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Standing stone (CO051-068002-) outside enclosure to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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