What is recorded here

Half-hidden in grass and bramble east of Killarney, the Faghbane ringfort keeps its shape only because a later stone wall holds its earthen bank against the sky. Its flat-topped ridge, long inner slope and two eastern gaps mark a made place where pasture, boundary and memory still touch. The fairies may have taken the name, but the measurements belong to people: a circular room large enough to live in, built where the land rises and the Flesk passes nearby.

In undulating pasture, to the E of Killarney and c. 450m W of the Flesk River. A circular area (27m N-S; 26.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m) with a flattened top, largely obscured by overgrowth and retained externally by a stone field wall E-WSW. There is a long slope on the internal face of the bank. The level interior is slightly raised and in pasture. The entrance (Wth 2.5m) is at E and there is also a break (Wth 1.2m) in the bank at ENE. A field boundary abuts the bank at SE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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