What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished Cork ringfort, erased around 1921 after standing beside a limekiln since at least 1842. Its shallow banks and hidden passage may have marked a small defensive home, a boundary for pasture, or a chamber where people avoided rain, heat, and ordinary notice. To call it a fairy fort is not to dismiss it; it is to admit that the landscape still withholds part of its meaning.

In pasture, on break in NE-facing slope. Depicted as roughly circular field, with limekiln built into E side, on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by low rise (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m). Locally known as fort. Possible Man-made underground passage (CO048-008002-) in interior. According to Broker(1937, 43) 'fort 1/4 acre, levelled completely about 1921'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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