What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Curraghgorm is a circular earthen ringfort on a south-facing pasture slope in County Cork, Ireland. Its bank rises two metres externally and encloses a level area thirty-seven by thirty-six and a half metres, with a flooded ditch surviving on parts of the circuit and a gap to the north. People may have lived there, marked territory, or simply followed the shape the land had already made. The fairies, according to local story, took it back.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular raised area (37m N-S; 36.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2m) WNW->ESE; scarp with slight internal lip elsewhere. External fosse survives SSE->NW; flooded. Break in bank to N. On 1935 OS 6-inch map flooded or waterlogged fosse depicted all round except for break 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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