What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Poularick is a 27-metre circular earthwork atop a low hillock in County Cork, Ireland, with a stone-faced entrance to the east. Its shallow southern depression may be a lost fosse, while field clearance stones now clutter the bank and interior. Another ringfort watches from a hill to the north, suggesting a small landscape where people lived, marked boundaries and left behind a shape still visible through soil and memory.
In tillage, atop low hillock. Circular area (27m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by earthen bank (H 0.7m). Shallow depression to S between bank and E-W field fence may be remains of external fosse; elsewhere field ploughed up to base of bank. Stone-faced entrance to E. Field clearance stones dumped on bank and in interior. Ringfort (CO083-104----) in view atop hill to N.
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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- What survives
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