What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort in County Cork, conjoined to a ringfort on an NE-facing slope. Its twenty-seven-metre circle holds a level, slightly raised interior where cattle still graze. The boundary blends a low earthen bank, the taller ringfort wall and a field fence, creating one continuous shape rather than two separate ones. People may have drawn the fence around the fort instead of cutting through it, acknowledging that the land already belonged to someone else.
In pasture, atop NE-facing slope. Conjoined to ringfort (CO045-01702-). Circular area (diam. c. 27m) defined by low bank (H c. 0.75m) E->W; earthen bank (H 1.2m) of conjoined ringfort W->NW; field fence NW->E. Interior level and slightly raised.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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