What is recorded here

Scrahanard holds a rough circular fort twenty-nine metres wide, bounded by a earthen bank rising one point six metres on a south-east facing slope. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the gap in the wall leads nowhere visible or the field belongs to nobody human. The standing stone nearby watches the pasture like a sentinel forgotten by time.

In pasture, on SSE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (29m E-W; 27m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (max. H 1.6m) S->E. Bank replaced by dry stone wall for short sections to W and ENE. Gap (Wth 2.2m) to SW. Standing stone (6866) in same field to NE. 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 (ringfort/rath) in Scrahanard, likely dating to the early medieval period, featuring an earthen bank and dry stone walling with a western entrance. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folk, and the presence of a standing stone may indicate earlier ritual or funerary use.

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