What is recorded here

Killavarrig holds a circular stone-faced bank twenty-seven metres across, marking a human boundary on the northern slope. The neat ring suggests people lived there long before written records, shaping the earth into a defensible home. Local legend calls it a fairy fort, warning that the boundary belongs to something else now. The gap in the northeast bank still faces the valley, inviting entry or escape depending on which world you inhabit.

In pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Circular area (27.1m N-S; 27.3m E-W) enclosed by stone-faced earthen bank (H 1.1m), with external fosse (D 0.5m) SE->WNW. Gap in bank to NE (Wth 0.5m). 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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