What is recorded here

A fourty metre circle of buried earth still marks Rockspring, its western edge hidden beneath soil while a curved field fence may preserve part of the original bank. The name fairy fort suggests people once believed the shape belonged to another world, yet an earthen ringfort nearby shows ordinary hands may have built it for defence, storage or residence. The eastern entrance and circular form point to a small inhabited place where people entered, lived and left behind a boundary the land still remembers.

Cropmark of fosse (W->SSW) of circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989); slightly curved field fence (SSW->W) may incorporate bank of enclosure; possible entrance at E. Ringfort (CO016-002---) c. 100m to SSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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