What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Na Huláin Thiar is a stone-faced earthen ring, twenty-nine metres wide, cut into a south-facing slope in County Cork. Its bank rises nearly two metres inside, with a steeper scarp elsewhere and a possible four-metre entrance to the east-southeast. People may have lived there, herded animals, or simply marked the hillside before leaving. The shape still holds its ground, steady and unexplained, while pasture grass grows soft around it.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (29m E-W; 28.5m N-S) defined by earthen stone-faced bank (ext. H 0.9m; int. H 1.7m) W->E; scarp (H 2.5m) elsewhere. Possible entrance to ESE (Wth 4m). Interior set into hillslope to N; raised on S side to compensate for hillslope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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