What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Glandarta, County Cork: a 25-metre earthen ring, 0.8 metres high, topped with stone, facing south with a northern gap. Cultivation ridges still cross its interior, suggesting people worked the land inside long after the bank was built. The fairy name may be hindsight, people refusing to explain what they stopped understanding.

In pasture, on break in S-facing slope. Circular area (25m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.8m), topped by stone wall. Gap in bank to N. Cultivation ridges cross interior on E-W axis. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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