What is recorded here

Fairy forts and earthen ringforts in Cork and Kerry are often circular ditches or banks, not true forts. Some are small, some large, and some have entrances or internal mounds. They appear in fields, hillsides, woodlands and coastal plains. People built or shaped them for housing, exclusion or display. They are not automatic fairy houses, though local story may treat them that way.

In rough grazing land, broken by marshy ground, on E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; arc formed by low rise (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m; Wth 6m) survives W->NNE; bank levelled elsewhere and appears to be pushed outwards to E and S giving the site overall dimensions of 22m N-S and 20m E-W. Interior slopes down to E; flat-topped mound (diam. c. 3.3m; H 0.2m) in N half of interior. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 379) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 25yd) on C. O'Reilly's land; site c. 2ft higher than surrounding field. 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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