What is recorded here

Fairy forts hide plain sight. They wear human shapes because people touched them, built them, broke them or forgot them. A fort is a room without walls, large enough for every person who ever stood inside it. The chamber is a circle, not a cage. It shows the shape of life, not the edges of a box.

In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; hachured as circular raised area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by fosse on 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Field boundary skirts enclosure (ENE->NE) on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps, but forms part of hachured enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. According to local information, single earthen bank with surrounding fosse, levelled c. late 1970's. Upstanding circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R649; May 1977), skirted by field boundary W->E. Possible enclosure (CO007-090---) lies c. 130m 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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