What is recorded here

Meadstown holds a true ringfort, not a fairy tale, though locals still call it a fairy fort. Its earthen bank circles forty metres of level pasture, breaking only where stones and bushes now block the way. Conifers rise inside the ancient boundary, marking a place where human hands shaped the land before memory faded.

In level pasture. Circular area (40.5m E-W; 39.5m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.35m); external fosse (D 0.6m) N->NNE, E and S->WNW. Break in bank to SSE (Wth 4.8m) blocked by earth, stones and bushes; to W (Wth 2.2m) blocked by bushes. Interior planted with coniferous trees. 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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