What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Shronagreehy: a ruined stone ring, 22.5 by 24.5 metres, set on a north-facing pasture slope in County Cork. Its outer wall still shows large regular blocks around a smaller-stone core, while the east entrance is blocked and cultivation ridges cut across the middle. People may have lived there, fenced it, or abandoned it before memory stretched back far enough to name them.

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (22.5m N-S; 24.5m E-W) enclosed by ruined stone wall. Original outer facing visible to SW and W: large regular blocks with core of smaller stones. Some recent rebuilding on general line of inner facing of earlier wall now reduced to foundation level. Entrance to E (Wth 2m) blocked by wall. Cultivation ridges cross interior on N-S axis. 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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