What is recorded here

Mullaghroe North held a double-ramparted ringfort nearly fifty metres across, large enough to swallow a whole neighbourhood before humans learned to build circles. Bowman measured outer walls seven feet high and a nineteen-foot fosse in 1934, but local memory claims machines bit into that depth around 1982. The surviving earthen bank still catches rain and supports mature trees, turning ancient defence into a living green ridge above ordinary pasture.

In pasture, towards top of gentle S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. According to local information, partially levelled c. 1982. Circular area (51m E-W; 47.5m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1m) S->W, incorporated into field fence system with some stone facing on outer face; low rise (H 0.2m) elsewhere. Mature deciduous trees grow on bank. Bowman (1934, 267) describes site as double-ramparted (diam. c. 32yd), on D. O'Leary's land, with outer rampart 5 to 7ft H, inner rampart c. 7ft H from base of fosse and intervening fosse 19ft wide. 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

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Mullaghroe North, likely dating to the early medieval period, is represented on historic Ordnance Survey maps as a circular enclosure approximately 50 metres in diameter. Local tradition and folklore associate such sites with the supernatural, often considered habitats of the fairies or ancient spirits in Irish tradition.

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