What is recorded here

Killabraher South holds a levelled fairy fort where a shallow fosse still marks the edge of a lost circular home. The western roadway cut through the ancient boundary, proving that human traffic has long favoured convenience over memory. Cattle now graze the smooth pasture, unaware that they walk across the remains of a place people shaped before roads existed.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; hachured as circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by fosse on 1936 OS 6-inch map; shown as truncated by roadway to W on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; subcircular area (c. 36m N-S) enclosed by shallow fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 2m). Fosse most clearly defined N->E and ESE->SE; cut by roadway to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killabraher South is a circular early-medieval defensive or domestic site, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. It is associated with local folklore surrounding fairies and other supernatural beings, common in Irish tradition for such earthworks.

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