What is recorded here

Moyge held a thirty-metre earthen ring on an east-facing slope, visible enough for surveyors to map repeatedly before people levelled it into ordinary pasture. The local name suggests humans believed fairies occupied the fort, while the removed fences and lost ridge suggest neighbouring people eventually decided the land was worth more dead than strange. What remained is a circular absence, smooth under grass but still marked by the shape of every cart that refused to believe it empty.

In pasture, on E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; hachured as circular raised area surrounded by fosse on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Field fences surround site on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Surrounding field fences removed. 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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