What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular fairy fort in County Cork, Ireland, where a low earthen bank and silted ditch still trace a thirty-three-metre ring through living barley. The field swallows its edges each season, yet the shape returns beneath the crop like a remembered heartbeat. People may have stood inside that ring before written history, watching the northern slope or sharing food under an open sky.

In tillage, on gentle N-facing slope. Circular area (33m N-S; 32.5m E-W) enclosed by low earthen bank (H 0.2m) NNW->SW; slight scarp SW->NNW; silted-up external fosse NNW->SW. Stone wall and dump of field clearance stones atop bank. Barley planted in interior. 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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