What is recorded here

Half a kilometre west of Bantry Bay, a broad earthen ring rises above the pasture, its flat top wide enough for a dozen houses and its entrance marked by a causeway cut through the bank. People called it a fairy fort, which is often what humans say when they stop asking which person lived there and when they left. The shape suggests a family or a small tribe, not a trick of the land: a defensible place, made deliberate, abandoned long enough to become strange.

In pasture, atop drumlin. Platform (38.5m N-S; 37.3m E-W) raised 2.75m above surrounding ground level; enclosed by earthen bank (H 1m) W->NNE; external fosse (D 1.1m); counterscarp bank (H 1.19m) NW->N. Entrance to NNE (Wth 4.2m), with causeway. Myler (1998, 21) describes the site as being 'heavily planted with dense coniferous trees'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 24 January 2013

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