What is recorded here

Briars and memory tangle inside a forty-metre circle on an east-facing slope in Garraun North. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the dead or forgotten still seem to occupy places the living have stopped naming. The earthen bank rises one metre outside and sixty centimetres inside, breaking into fence and drain where human usefulness cut through older shape. What was lost is not emptiness; it is a room waiting for recognition.

In pasture, on E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Arc formed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) survives NNW->SE, with external fosse (D 0.3m). Bank replaced to S by E-W field fence, kinked to partially respect line of enclosure; truncated on W side by drain with field boundary to outside. Interior partially overgrown with briars. 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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