What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human origins, mislabelled by modern fantasy. A circle of earth in Moyge is a ringfort, not a fairy palace. The chamber is gone, but the boundary remains. The field still holds the shape of the people who lived there.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps, with external fosse E->NW marked on 1905 OS 6-inch map; hachured as circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by fosse on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; circular area (c. 40m NE-SW) enclosed by shallow fosse. Remains of cultivation ridges cross interior on NW-SE axis. According to local information, levelled c. 1950s. Circular enclosure (CO007-09902-) adjoining site to W; enclosure (CO007-09903-), circular enclosure (CO007-09905-) and possible enclosure (CO007-09904-) in same field. Within field system (CO007-09906-). 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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