What is recorded here

Mangerton looms southwest across open pasture while the forgotten fort holds its invisible circle on the southeast slope. That is the shape of Tullig: a place where the land still distinguishes between what it shows and what it keeps back. The survey marked a thirty-metre enclosure long before modern instruments could judge it, and the field has answered every human claim by withdrawing its evidence. People may have lived there, feared there or raved about the fairies who own every hidden angle in Kerry. The mountain does not correct them. It waits for them to stop wanting proof.

In pasture, on a break on a SE-facing slope with views SW to Mangerton Mountain. This rath is not visible at ground level. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1846 and 1893-4 OS 6-inch maps. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tullig, likely dating to the early medieval period, is represented as a circular enclosure of about 30 metres in diameter on 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folklore, and the fort's invisibility at ground level may contribute to its mystical reputation.

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