What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Hollyhill is a circular earthen ring atop a drumlin, 22 metres across, with a 1.2m bank and a darker grass shadow marking its silted fosse. An angular kink in the eastern bank and cultivation ridges crossing the interior suggest the ring was made, broken, farmed and forgotten rather than simply dreamed. It is the kind of place where ordinary pasture keeps a sharp edge, as if the earth still remembers the shape of the hand that turned it.

In pasture, atop drumlin. Circular area (22m N-S; 22.9m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.2m); darker grass indicates silted-up external fosse. Angular kink in line of bank to E. Cultivation ridges cross interior NNW-SSE. 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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