What is recorded here

Fairy forts are often ringforts, but that is no reason to call every ringfort a fairy fort. In Templemary the earthen bank still stands beside ordinary pasture, half hidden by grass and forgetfulness. A person may have lived there, raised children, lost a pot, and left the circle behind. The land kept the shape while the names and tools disappeared.

In level pasture. Circular area (29m N-S; 28.1m E-W) bisected off-centre to W by N-S field boundary. On W side of field boundary interior defined by heavily overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.53m; ext. H 1m); on E side defined by low rise with faint trace of external fosse as shallow depression. Interior clear of overgrowth and used for grazing. 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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