What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Tibbotstown, County Cork: a rough circular earthwork, 26 metres east-west and 24 metres north-south, with a 0.8-metre-high bank and outer ditch. Parts of the bank are stone-faced, but gaps remain to the east and northwest. The interior is overgrown and slopes gently westward, set in pasture on a break in a west-facing slope.

In pasture, on break in W-facing slope. Roughly circular area (26m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by earthen bank (H 0.8m), with external fosse (D 0.8m). Bank stone faced in parts; gaps to E and NW. Interior heavily overgrown, slopes gently down to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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