What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Grenagh North, County Cork. Bivallate earthen ring, thirty-five metres across, marked on maps from 1842 to 1938. Local information says it was levelled around 1980. Nothing visible remains, but the ground remembers the shape of what stood there.

Shown as hachured bivallate enclosure on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps (diam. c. 35m). In tillage, on N-facing slope. According to local information, levelled c. 1980; no visible surface trace. 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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