What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fairy forts. They are human ringforts, misnamed later. This is one of them: a grassy bank, a shallow ditch, a northern gap, and a flat interior wide enough for a small household. The water in the southeast ditch still moves rain from the field. Everything else has withdrawn into soil and silence.

In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope. Circular, slightly raised area (29.8m E-W; 27.3m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.55m) with external fosse (D 0.45m). Bank mainly grass-covered and fairly uniform all round. Fosse partially waterlogged to SE; drain feeds into it to NW. Entrance (Wth 2.6m) to N. 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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