What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Fornaght: a circular earthwork, 24 metres across, with a partially overgrown bank half a metre high and an entrance to the southwest. A stream was re-routed through a cut channel along the northern half of the enclosure, and some of that material was dumped on the bank. It sits in rough grazing land, not a showpiece, but a place where water, soil and memory keep adjusting one another.

In rough grazing land. Circular area (diam. 24m) enclosed by partially overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.5m). Stream re-routed in channel dug on line of fosse along N half of enclosure; material from channel dumped on bank in parts. Entrance to SW (Hartnett 1939, 186). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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