What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular earthen ringfort in County Cork, Ireland, where a stone-faced bank still surrounds a gently sloping pasture. It is the kind of place where people may have lived, herded animals or kept firelight through winter, while later stories may have called it a fairy fort. The seam between ordinary life and local belief still shows in its shape.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular, raised area (diam. 22.8m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.4m), stone faced in parts. Interior slopes gently down to SE. 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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