What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort in County Cork, Ireland. The circular area is 23 metres across and still holds a low collapsed wall topped by a later stone wall. It sits in pasture on a north-west-facing slope, where the boundary between human memory and fairy mischief becomes hard to locate.

In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 23m) enclosed by low collapsed wall of stones and topped by later stone wall (H 1.6m; T 1m). 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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