What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Pallas, County Cork: a 37m earthen ring, 2.75m high, set in pasture on a north-facing slope. People may have lived inside the bank or kept livestock within it, while later workers added stone facing and left a gap to the south-east. The field around it has carried the fairy name for generations, reminding everyone that the ring still belongs to story as much as to history.
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (37m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.75m), with modern stone facing NNW->SSE; shallow external fosse NNW->N. Break in bank to SSE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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