What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Glenaglogh South: a 24-metre earthen ring, 1.5 metres high, partly stone-faced, set in pasture beside a small cliff south of the Delehinagh River. People called it a fairy fort because the middle has become a tangle of scrub and shadow instead of a home they could point to. The fact that it is a ringfort means human hands built the boundary, likely for residence or exclusion, before the story of fairies moved in to explain what no longer had a visible owner.

In pasture, close to edge of small cliff, S of Delehinagh River. Circular area (diam. 24m) defined by earthen bank (H 1.5m), stone-faced in parts externally. Interior overgrown with scrub. 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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