What is recorded here

Three small ringforts stood on the Rosslague ridge before ploughs erased them. They are gone now, but the grass still bulges where their walls once rose. Local people called them fairy forts, perhaps because the truth about who lived there has faded. The land remembers shape even when memory departs.

In tillage, on crest of ridge. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). According to Power (1923, 201) 'The O.M. records three small lioses; these have been all levelled, though their sites are easily recognised. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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