What is recorded here

Lisnagoorneen holds a forty-metre earthen ring with a smaller eight-metre circle at its heart, visible in pasture since at least 1842. The main chamber may have housed a person, a loom, a hearth or a claim to the land, while the central marker still puzzles. That is why it is called a fairy fort: the shape is clear, but the life inside has slipped away.

In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with small hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 8m) at centre; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 40m) on 1935 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (46m E-W; 42m N-S) defined by scarp (H 0.4m) with shallow external fosse. Possible entrance to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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