What is recorded here

Mortons and others still call it a fairy fort, though the earth is human. A steep three-metre-nine scarp and a thin stony bank enclose an oval pasture facing east, with a two-metre gap where someone entered, left, or was remembered. In the southwest quadrant a square hollow the size of a small hut remains visible, perhaps a dwelling, a workshop, a shrine, or a child's idea of a castle. The Owennashingaun valley still drops away below it, carrying rain from the same slope where the ringfort keeps its shape.

In pasture, on E-facing slope, overlooking Owennashingaun River valley. Oval area (20.6m N-S; 25.9m E-W) defined by scarp to N, E and S (H 3.9m); intermittent stony bank (H 0.1m). Gap to E (Wth 2m). Square hut site (2.9m N-S; 2.9m E-W) (CO118-069001-) in SW quadrant. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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