What is recorded here

Fairy forts are often called that because people stopped believing the truth: these were human homes, farmed and defended before memory faded. In Croaghnacree the ring keeps its shape on a NW-facing slope, with a raised interior, faint bank and possible wide entrance toward the NE. Cows may walk across it now, but the ground still distinguishes inside from outside, as if household life had merely changed rather than disappeared.

In pasture, on NW-facing slope, on E side of stream valley. Circular, raised area (32.5m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by scarp (H c. 1m), topped by remains of low bank, highest to SE (H 0.5m); intervening shallow fosse; low external bank (H 0.4m) to NW and N. Possible entrance (Wth 7.8m) to NE. 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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