What is recorded here

Carrigroe holds an earthen oval forty-two metres long, marked by twin banks and deep ditches on a south-facing slope. The southern gap measures six metres wide, inviting entry rather than blocking it. Local people call it a fairy fort, suggesting the earth itself may still breathe beneath the pasture.

In pasture, on break in S-facing slope. Oval area (42.5m N-S; 33.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (max. int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.8m), with external fosse (D 0.6m); second bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.8m) N->SSE and SSW->NW; outer fosse NNE->SSW (D 1.35m). Break through both banks to SSW (Wth 6m). 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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