What is recorded here

Muskerry people called it a fairy fort because the earth bank rises like a hidden room beneath the ridge. The real shape is an earthen ringfort, forty-six metres across, with a stone-faced inner wall, a narrow entrance to the east, and a shallow ditch that still holds rainwater. Humans built it, lived beside it, and stopped repeating its name. The fairies moved in later, as they do everywhere people stop watching.

In pasture, below crest of ridge, on S-facing slope. Circular area (46m NW-SE) defined by earthen bank (ext. H 2.4m), with external fosse (D 0.8m). Bank stone-faced internally to height of 1m; flat-topped with slight lip along outer edge. Entrance (Wth 6m) to ESE with causeway; terminals of bank flanking entrance higher than elsewhere. Fosse waterlogged on E side. Interior heavily overgrown; townland boundary fence bisects entrance and interior on WNW-ESE axis. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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