What is recorded here

Inchinaneave holds a thirty-metre earthen ring at the foot of Kilbarry Hill, its stone-faced bank rising two metres before disappearing into ferns. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the strange shape resisted ordinary explanation or because the fairies were simply better at keeping secrets than humans were at remembering them. The laneway still skirts its western edge, carrying drivers past a place that stopped being useful long before it stopped being noticed.

In pasture, at foot of W side of Kilbarry Hill, on W-facing slope. Circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.3m) SSE->W; heavily overgrown scarp (H 0.6m) on N side; field fence to E. Bank stone-faced externally in parts. Laneway skirts bank to W; roadway on N side. Interior covered in ferns. 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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