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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Sunfort

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Sunfort: a circular earthwork beside the Awbeg River in County Cork. The outer bank stands only 0.25m high, but the circle remains clear in pasture. It may have been a dwelling, a boundary marker or a place people avoided because it belonged elsewhere.
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope, c. 150m N of Awbeg River. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; circular area (21.8m ENE-WSW) enclosed by two low banks with intervening fosse. Outer bank (H 0.25m) truncated on S side by field boundary. 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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