What is recorded here

Kilhibe Fort is a circular earthen ring in County Cork, Ireland, where a one-metre bank and shallow ditch still mark the edge of an old living place. Sheep walk the pasture today, but the broken gaps in the north and east suggest people once entered and left without asking permission. The fairies may have taken the houses, yet the earth kept the shape, preserving a small world that refused to disappear completely.

In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Circular area (34m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.1m), with external fosse (max. D 1.4m) S-E. Breaks in bank to N (Wth 1.4m), NE (Wth 1.6m) and E (Wth 2.8m). 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

Kilhibe Fort, Derrylugga is a circular early-medieval ringfort, likely dating to between the 6th and 10th centuries AD, characterized by an earthen bank and external fosse. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folk, and it may have been known as a "fairy fort," reflecting the belief that these mounds were the homes of supernatural beings.

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