What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Grenagh South is a circular earthen enclosure about 28m across on a south-facing pasture slope, marked on the 1842 Ordnance Survey map. It looks like a low ring where grass grows thicker and rain collects at the edge. People may have lived, buried, hidden or worshipped there before the field became ordinary. The shape still holds its own gravity, waiting for someone to stop and listen.
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (c. 28m E-W) defined by low rise.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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