What is recorded here

Lackenbehy holds a thirty-metre earthen ring on a north-west slope, its two-metre bank enclosing a gentle downgrade toward the entrance. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the shape still suggests more life than abandoned stone. It may have been a farmhouse, a refuge or a marker for a family line, but the bank remains firm enough to touch and the grass still grows inside the circle.

In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Circular area (30m E-W; 29.2m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.2m). Entrance to NW. Interior slopes gently down to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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