What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort in County Cork, Ireland. It occupies a south-facing pasture slope where a rough circular bank still marks the edge of an old human world. The earth has not forgotten the shape, though people have stopped naming the rooms inside it.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (26m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.4m) E->NW; scarp (H 0.4m) survives elsewhere. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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