What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed, often by people who would not own up to building them or remember doing so. In Grenagh South the earth still draws a clear circle beside the farm, with a causeway through the outer bank where an entrance once cut the ring. That much is fact. The fairy part is a story people told later, perhaps to keep the place strange instead of explaining it.

In level pasture, E of farm house. Circular area (28.7m N-S; 27.4m E-W) enclosed by scarp (max. H 1.5m), with slight internal lip W->NE (max. H 0.6m); external fosse and outer earthen bank (H 1.6m) survive all round. Scarp less well defined to E, opposite gap (Wth 2m) in outer bank, causewayed. 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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