What is recorded here

Indicated is a broken fairy fort in County Cork, its earthen bank still standing one metre twenty high along the northeast edge while ploughs erased the rest. The 1842 survey marked two joined circles, but only a shadow of the first remains beside the second. Cows graze the levelled pasture above the buried ditch, unaware they walk across a threshold the region once believed separated human law from fairy law.

In pasture, on level patch of ground, on S-facing slope. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular enclosure conjoined on NE side to circular enclosure (CO100-02001-). Interior (23m E-W; 24.5m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m) NE->WNW; external fosse to E (max. D 1.25m). Levelled elsewhere. 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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