What is recorded here

Skagh holds a forty-metre earthen ring marked on maps since 1842, yet bushes now strangle the entrance and hide an underground passage inside. The fairies may have taken the fort from human sight, leaving only a buried tunnel and a forgotten boundary in the tillage.

In tillage. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Inaccessible due to heavy overgrowth of bushes. Interior enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) with external fosse (D 0.5m). Man-made underground passage (CO030-10002-) in interior. 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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