What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Trawlebane: a 26-metre earthen ring with a 2.9-metre bank, western causeway entrance and a hidden rectangular chamber against the south-west inner wall. Cultivation ridges still cross the grass, suggesting people farmed inside what later became a fairy fort in local memory. The chamber may have stored grain, tools or secrets before roofs and names disappeared.

Circular, heavily overgrown area (26m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.9m); external fosse (D 1m); low outer bank SSW->WSW. Entrance to W, with causeway. Cultivation ridges cross interior on E-W axis; subterranean rectangular unroofed chamber (D 1.4m; 1.6m NNE-SSW; 3m NNW-SSE) against inner face of bank to SSW. 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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