What is recorded here

Half-hidden beneath hawthorn on a north-facing slope in Broghill North, the fairy fort keeps its circular shape through two earthen banks and a broken fosse. It is not a distant myth but a lived boundary, marking where human hands shaped the land before marsh, water and vegetation reclaimed the edges. The nearby rectangular and circular enclosures suggest a small cluster of uses rather than a single forgotten house.

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank: int. H 0.55m) with intervening fosse. Outer fosse survives to W and N; field boundary runs outside outer bank to E, with stream flowing in between; wide marshy depression (D 0.7m; Wth 12.6m) to S. Enclosure heavily overgrown with hawthorn bushes. Rectangular enclosure (CO002-023---) c. 20m to SW in same field, and circular enclosure (CO002-025---) in adjoining field to E. 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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