What is recorded here

Indicated was a D-shaped fairy fort on a south-facing Cork slope, wide enough for a small household and visible on maps from 1842 to 1937. By the 1960s the earth had been levelled and the fences gone, leaving only pasture where its shadow once stood. It is the kind of place that disappears without ceremony, remembered only because a line was drawn around it before someone decided the land needed more room.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Depicted as D-shaped enclosure (c. 25m N-S; projecting c. 25m to W) planted with trees on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace; according to local information, fort levelled c. 1960s. Surrounding field fences removed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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