What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyphilibeen is a 29-metre earthen ring on a south-facing slope beside a house garden. Its bank rises 2.1 metres outside and 1.5 metres inside, enclosing trees and a shallow cutting in the north-west quadrant. People may have lived there before calling it a fairy fort, yet the ring still feels like a threshold between ordinary pasture and forgotten occupancy.

In pasture, on S-facing slope and forming part of garden of nearby house. Circular, slightly raised, area (29m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 2.1m) S->ESE; low rise ESE->S. Interior planted with trees; straight-sided cutting (L 8m; Wth 4m; D 1.2m) in NW 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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