What is recorded here

Lisnafahy is a circular fairy fort atop a west Cork ridge, its low earthen bank enclosing twenty-six metres of pasture. The northern ditch has silted into shadow, suggesting the site may have traded human history for folklore. It remains a quiet marker of how quickly ordinary land becomes myth when people stop measuring it and start listening.

In pasture, atop E-W ridge. Circular area (26m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by low earthen bank (max. H 1.3m), with silted-up fosse to N. 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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