What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort in County Cork, Ireland: a thirty-metre stone ring on a natural rise, its wall still standing one metre seventy high and two metres thick. It is the kind of place where human life may have turned to legend, where the boundary between the seen and unseen becomes thin. The stones do not need explanation; they remember being held.

In pasture, atop natural rise. Circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by substantial stone wall (H 1.7m; Wth 2m): short section replaced by later stone wall to S. 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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