What is recorded here

Half a century of grass and shadow has swallowed the fort, yet the earthen bank still holds its oval shape above the quarried slope. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the ground itself seemed to disappear into legend rather than history. The soil remembers hands that shaped it long before maps drew its line.

In pasture, on S-facing slope above sharp fall of ground to S which has been quarried into. Depicted as circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; more oval-shaped on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Roughly oval area (43m E-W; 36.3m N-S) defined by heavily overgrown, earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m) to N; scarp to E, S and W; external fosse (D 0.65m) to W and N. Interior slopes down to SE; partially overgrown; quarried into to SE and W. Overgrowth obscures face of S scarp, possibly truncated by quarry. 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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