What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished fairy fort on a south-facing Cork slope, watching Glanworth and the Nagle mountains. A broken line on an 1842 map and cropmarks in 1989 suggest two ditches, but the land has swallowed the ring. The surrounding fields still kink away from its hidden heart, as if remembering a boundary no longer visible.

In tillage, on S-facing slope, commanding view over Glanworth to Nagle mountains. Depicted as circular area (diam. c. 35m), enclosed by broken line on 1842 OS 6-inch map, in NE corner of field. No visible surface trace of site. Subsequent to field visit site recorded as cropmark of two fosses E->NW in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989), with kinks in field boundaries respecting interior to N and NE. Levelled circular enclosure (CO027-130---) in same field c. 150m to SSW 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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