What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Slieveowen, County Cork, is an earthen ringfort set in pasture atop a natural rise. Its two banks and deep fosse mark a circular space where people may have lived, hidden, or played long before the stones went quiet. The broken inner edge and waterlogged ditch still hold the shape of that lost activity.

In pasture, atop natural rise. Circular raised area (58.2m E-W; 56.6m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks with deep intervening fosse SW->SE; scarp on line of inner bank to S. Inner bank (max. int. H 1.9m) highest on N side and decreasing in height around to the W and E. Fosse waterlogged to E. Outer bank (H 1.2m) lowest on E side where it varies between 0.4m and 1m in height. Breaks in inner bank to N and SE. Interior level; raised area inside SE bank; possible Man-made underground passage (9112) to N of centre. 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

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