What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Grenagh South, County Cork: a ruined earthen ring, not a fantasy claim. The 1842 map drew a full thirty-five-metre circle; later surveying found only arcs left, because farming and fence-making took the rest. What remains is a shallow ditch, a bank, and a line of excluded ground in ordinary pasture. The fairies may be a jest, but the measurement is not.

In level pasture. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular enclosure (diam c. 35m); bank removed NE->S on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Arc (C 21.6m) formed by earthen bank (int. H 1.6m) NW->NE, with external fosse (D 0.55m); outer bank (H 1.7m), incorporated into field fence system, survives SW->NW. 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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