What is recorded here

Mortons and Haremount both claim the same fort, though neither name appears on the stone. A forty-one metre circle of collapsed wall and earthen bank still stands on the west-facing slope, its outer ditch half buried under pasture and half stolen by a drain. The southeast gap may have been an entrance, or merely the place where the wall first surrendered to rain. Inside, faint cultivation ridges cross east to west, suggesting people farmed the very ground later called fairy-owned.

In rough pasture, on W-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 41m) enclosed by partially collapsed stone wall (H 1.3m; T 2.5m), outer earthen bank (H1.8m) and outer fosse (D 0.7m). Earthen bank stands 2m outside wall; no surface evidence for intervening fosse. Outer fosse reused as drain NNW->ENE; infilled SSE->SW. Possible entrance to SE. Remains of cultivation ridges cross interior on E-W axis. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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