What is recorded here

Indicated is a levelled fairy fort in County Cork, preserving a thirty-seven-metre circular platform beside a hidden underground passage. It appeared on an 1842 map as a marked enclosure but later became only a faint curve in a field fence. The land was changed for ordinary use, yet the separate fort and passage remained close together, suggesting the area once served more than one purpose.

In pasture, on break in E-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular enclosure; as curve in E-W field fence on later eds of OS 6-inch map. Levelled; circular scarped platform (diam. c. 37m N-S: H 1m) visible. Ringfort (CO046-020001-) and Man-made underground passage (CO046-020002-) c. 80m to N. 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

Lisnabrin South is a likely early-medieval ringfort, indicated by its circular scarped platform and historical depiction on the 1842 Ordnance Survey map. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy lore, often regarded as dwellings of the "good people" in Irish folklore.

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