What is recorded here

Lettergorman holds a thirty-five metre stone circle buried beneath ferns and ringed by thistles. The land remembers hands that moved rock before written history, shaping a defensible home on the northern slope. Fairy fort is the local name, but human muscles built the ring. The thistles still guard what forgetfulness tried to take.

In pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Roughly circular stony area (diam. 35m), overgrown with ferns, encircled by band of thistles. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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