What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lisgoold East, County Cork, a circular earthen ring about thirty metres across, marked on the 1842 map but mostly levelled now, its shallow bank hidden inside a field fence. It may have been a modest home or marker on a sloping pasture, perhaps tied to the nearby ringfort, while local thought may have turned it into a fairy fort because such rounded places often sound like dwelling for unseen neighbours.

In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circulr enclosure (diam. c. 30m); as curve in N-S field fence on later eds OS 6-inch map. Levelled; eroded bank (int. H c. 0.8m) retained in field fence. No other surface trace. Possible ringfort (CO065-010---) c. 120m to NNW. 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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