What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Grillagh: a 36 m earthen ring on a west-facing slope, its shallow outer ditch and low scarp still marking the boundary between field and forgotten life. People may have kept animals, hidden during trouble or simply shaped the land for a home; the fairies, according to local story, took the ring back after people stopped believing it was theirs. A fence now cuts through one side, as if ownership still argues with itself.

In pasture, on W-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 36m E-W) defined by scarp NNE->W (H 0.9m); shallow depression outside scarp ENE->SE. Field fence running NE-SW truncates interior on NNW side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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