What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Egmont, County Cork: a 30-metre earthen ring now hidden under a horse training ring, with ground falling south toward Toberalisheen. Horses still circle the place where people once kept fire, tools or memory. The fort is gone from sight but not from shape; it lives in the rhythm of the ring.

In level pasture, with natural fall of ground to S down to stream and 'Toberalisheen'. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured arc, showing scarp, E->SSW on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Horse training ring on site; no visible surface trace of enclosure. 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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