What is recorded here

Clearly this is a ringfort, not a fairy fort. People built it, lived there, and left it behind. The fairies arrived later, as fairies do, to claim what humans abandoned.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (23.25m E-W; 22m N-S) defined by low, worn, earthen bank (int. H 0.5m); with intervening fosse and outer bank (H 1.3m) surviving N->SW. Gap (Wth 1.75m) in inner bank to NW; second gap (Wth 2.2m) through both banks to ESE. Field fence running approximately N-S curves to respect enclosure on E side. 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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