What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rooves More is a roughly circular, slightly raised area about 35m across, enclosed by a low bank and a shallow outside ditch on one side. It sits in pasture on a north-facing slope in County Cork, Ireland, with a standing stone and a cup-marked stone nearby in the same field. The place may have been a small defended home, a boundary marker or a ceremonial spot, but its size and shape suggest people valued the ground enough to shape it.

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Roughly circular, slightly raised area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by low bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.15m); shallow external fosse visible NNE->E. Bank heavily overgrown SE->SSW and separated from remainder of enclosure by field boundary crossing interior on NE-SW axis. Interior heavily overgrown to S of field boundary; to N used as dump for farm yard manure. Standing stone (CO059-101002-) and cup-marked stone (CO072-146----) in same field to NW of site. 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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