What is recorded here

Fairy forts are earthen rings people built and reused, yet local story insists they belong to invisible neighbours. This is one such ring: a slightly oval pasture hillock in Clogheen, about twenty-nine metres long, with a sharp inner scarp on the east and a lower outer bank toward the west. The 1842 map showed it wider and open to the road, as if part of the enclosure once reached the fence line; later maps drew a smaller, closed circle. Whatever the boundary was, the ground still rises above the fields like a forgotten room, waiting for someone to remember whether it housed people, spirits, or both.

In pasture, atop hillock. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured roughly circular area (diam. c. 50m), open to W, with hachured arms extending outward joining enclosure to roadside fence c. 30m to W; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Slightly oval-shaped raised area (29m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by scarp (H 1.2m) ESE->NE; earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.6m) elsewhere. Low bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9m) outside scarp on W side. Interior grass covered; once planted with trees, some of which survive; shallow depression (diam. 1m) in NE quadrant. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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