What is recorded here

Reagrellagh holds a broken earthen ring where a underground passage still cuts through the earth. Cows graze above the hidden entrance while the remaining bank supports a field fence, turning an ancient boundary into a modern line. The fort has lost most of its shape, but the hole in the ground remains a invitation to imagine what people covered, hid or forgot beneath it.

In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 38m) on 1842, 1903 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Arc formed by earthen bank (H 1m) survives NNW->NE incorporated into field fence system; levelled bank clearly visible as soilmark in aerial photograph (CASAP). Hartnett (1939, 238) describes rampart as 'very much overgrown and broken'. Man-made underground passage (CO061-055002-) 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 / earthen ringfort in Reagrellagh is a circular early-medieval defensive or ritual site, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries. The site's long survival on Ordnance Survey maps and local name suggest a continuity of folklore associating it with supernatural or otherworldly beings.

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