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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Glenaglogh South

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Delehinagh River flows a hundred metres north of the fort, past the circular earthwork where human hands built a stone-faced ring and possibly cut a hidden passage beneath the eastern soil. The fort stands in pasture on an NE-facing slope, its twenty-metre diameter marked by a one-metre-high bank now softened by grass and shadow. Deciduous trees grow inside the ring, their roots tangling with the old stone face, while the supposed underground passage remains unproven but plausible in the way such places often are. The fairies may have taken it back, or the earth may have simply forgotten which part belonged to people.
In pasture, on NE-facing slope, c. 100m SW of Delehinagh River. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by low earthen bank (H 1m). Bank stone-faced internally. Interior planted with deciduous trees; possible Man-made underground passage (CO049-036002-) in E half. 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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