What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Rahoonagh East, County Cork. Earth and stone bank rises seventy-five centimetres along a north-facing pasture slope. Local people call it the lios and whisper about an underground passage hidden inside. The shape suggests human hands, yet the name hands the place to fairy tradition.

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Arc formed by earth and stone bank (H 0.75m) survives W->N. According to local information known as 'the lios'; possible Man-made underground passage (CO069-059----) in interior. 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

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rahoonagh East, likely dating to the early medieval period, is a circular earthwork with a surviving western-to-northern arc of bank and stone. Locally known as 'the lios,' it is associated with traditional Irish folklore surrounding fairy dwellings and may have once featured an underground passage.

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