What is recorded here

Fairy forts hide in plain sight, often reduced to shallow dents or forgotten field margins. In Lahard, a D-shaped ringfort measured thirty by twenty metres on an eighteen-hundred-and-forty-two map. Farming and boundary changes erased the visible trace, but the ancient shape still influences the land.

In tillage, on SSE-facing slope. Depicted as D-shaped area (c. 30m N-S; c.20m E-W), with straight edge to E defined by field boundary, on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Field boundary removed; marked sharp drop to stream valley. Enclosure levelled; no visible surface trace. 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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