What is recorded here

Indicated is a partially destroyed fairy fort on a SW-facing slope in County Cork, Ireland. Power wrote in 1940 that two lioses stood on Smith's farms but both had already vanished, leaving behind a shallow oval ridge, a narrow outer dip and gorse clumps that still hint at the lost boundary. The sharp southern slope and faint circular ghost suggest a place once shaped for living, guarding or belonging before human hands erased most of it.

On SW-facing slope. Partially levelled. Circular area (diam. 25m N-S; 30m E-W); defined by low rise with external depression visible NW->NE (max. int. H 0.3m); elsewhere clumps of gorse may follow outline of site. Interior slopes sharply to S. According to Power (1940, 24) 'On Smith's farms were two lioses but both have been destroyed'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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