What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lissanoohig is a 42-metre earthen ring on a gentle slope in County Cork. Ferns still choke the inside, but the bank remains high enough to show the shape of the place. People may have lived there, or the fort may have belonged to the fairies, which is often the same thing in West Cork.

In pasture, on gentle NW-facing slope. Roughly circular area (38m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.15m). Enclosure heavily overgrown with ferns. 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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