What is recorded here
No fairies are recorded there, though people may have believed it. The earth and stone still mark a small fortified place at the foot of Claragh Mountain, shaped to the hill rather than laid out like a room.
In pasture, on SSE-facing slope, at foot of SE side of Claragh Mountain. Circular area (38.6m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m) SW->ESE; scarp (max. H 2.4m) elsewhere; external fosse (D 1.5m) SW->NW. Bank stone-faced in parts; entrance (Wth 3m) to E. Interior slopes down to SSE; raised on SE side to compensate for hillslope.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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