What is recorded here

Fairy fort, duhallow By. in Tooreen, was a circular stone ringfort on a hilltop, recorded in 1934 with a dry-stone rampart and a small mound at its south edge. By 1970 the fort had been ploughed out and conifers planted above it, erasing the surface trace while the hill kept the shape of what was lost.

In coniferous plantation, atop hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 38m) on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. According to local information, fort ploughed out c. 1970 and area planted; no visible surface trace. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 237) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 29m) with rampart (H c. 0.6m) of dry stone construction 'having an over-layer of earth.' ; some of rampart levelled and stones used in construction of trigonometrical station. Mound (c. 6.4m x c. 4.5m; H c. 0.6m) at S side of enclosure (ibid.). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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