What is recorded here

Garrycaheragh holds a thirty-metre earthen ring on a high plateau, marked as a Danish fort on a 1716 map yet still called a fairy fort by local tongues. The ground rises slightly where human boundaries once kinked and field lines broke, suggesting the circle resisted ordinary measurement. cattle may have grazed around it while people avoided stepping inside, treating the smooth earth as a threshold rather than a field.

In pasture on a high plateau, sloping gently to the E. Indicated with the symbol for 'Danish Fort' on a 1716-17 map (no. 57) by J. Bateman (NLI MSS, 6148-9). This possible rath is discernible on the ground as a slightly raised circular area (dim. c. 30m). The townland boundary immediately to the N kinked at this point, changing direction from NE-SW to E-W and a field boundary immediately to the W ran NW-SE. Both of these boundaries have been removed. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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