What is recorded here

Pines now crowd the shallow saucer, but the earthen bank still stands two metres high around a circular chamber thirty-five metres wide. A lone metre-long stone lies at the centre like a forgotten altar, while a shadowed passage may still cut westward beneath the grass. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the darkness inside defied explanation, yet the shape and size suggest human hands built a place for living, hiding or worship long before the trees arrived.

In level pasture. Circular area (35m N-S; 34m E-W), planted with pine, enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.9m); short section of external fosse survives to NW (D 0.4m); longer section SSE->W (D 0.75m) enclosed by stone-built field fence. Laneway skirts bank W->NW. Interior saucer-shaped; large stone (1m x 0.5m x 0.2m) lying at centre; possible Man-made underground passage (9061) off-centre to W. 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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