What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Cloonmore, County Cork: a worn earthen ring, about thirty-eight metres across, holding a shallow water-filled ditch and a gap at the northwest. Irises still mark the damp places inside and outside, as if the fort remembers rain more than people do. Its name suggests the old warning: do not enter what the land has stopped explaining.

In level pasture. Circular area (c. 38.6m E-W; c. 36m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.8m) WSW->NE; low rise (H 0.35m) NE->SSW. External fosse WSW->NE is waterlogged; shallow fosse (D 0.25m) survives elsewhere. Growth of irises at N side of interior, at centre and in fosse to NE, E and S may indicate waterlogging. Gap worn through bank to NW. 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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