What is recorded here

Fairy fort in THE Pike is a circular earthen ring above Curraghalicky Lake in County Cork, Ireland. Its bank stands 2.35m high around a 28.7m space, with a stone-topped southern edge, a western gap and a waterlogged northern inside. People later dumped rubble on it and crossed it as pasture, yet the shape still reads as a made place, not a heap.

In pasture, on N-facing slope above Curraghalicky Lake. Circular, slightly raised area (diam. 28.7m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.35m); topped by stone wall to S; section levelled to E (Wth 5.3m); field clearance material dumped on outer face to N and W. Gap in bank to W (Wth 1.8m). Interior overgrown; used as dumping ground for rubble; waterlogged inside N bank. 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: 14 January 2009

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