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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Indicated was a forty-metre fairy fort on a south-facing Cork slope, visible only through hachured lines on an 1842 map before ploughs erased it. The southern wall vanished first, then the rest followed, leaving pasture where a ring once stood. Forgetting is the final plough.
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Shown as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Indicated on 1904 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps with part of S side removed. Levelled; no visible surface trace. 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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