What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Gneeves is a broken earthen ring, wide enough to swallow a house but never built like one. Its bank still stands beside a missing gate, as if people stopped leaving and the earth took back the shape. What is absent matters more than what remains: the ring remembers the life that vanished inside it.

In pasture, just below crest of N-facing slope. Circular area (internal diam. 26m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.44m; ext. H 1.87m); external fosse (D 0.86m) E->SE and SW->NNW. Break (Wth 9.8m) in bank to NE, with external scarp (H 0.6m) remaining. Interior raised; slopes gently down to N. No visible surface trace of limekiln marked on W bank on 1842 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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