What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fairy forts. They are human ringforts, misnamed because people stopped remembering the humans who built them. In Sarsfieldscourt a circular enclosure once stood on a south-facing slope, wide enough for a small household and visible enough for surveyors to draw in 1842. Now only a field fence may curve where the northern bank stood, while the rest has been forgotten by soil, trees and time. The fairies did not arrive until the humans became hard to imagine.

In small area of woodland on S-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). N bank of enclosure may survive incurving field fence. No other 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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