What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Liscullane, County Cork: a circular earthen enclosure about 28 metres across, marked on maps from 1842 and levelled around 1978. It sat on a west-facing pasture slope with a shallow fosse, causeway gaps to the north and west, and a spring near the south that kept the ground damp. People may have lived there, kept stock, or simply recognized the shape as a boundary between fields and memory.

In pasture, on W-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as circular area (diam. c. 25m) on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps, enclosed by fosse with well in S fosse. According to local information, levelled c. 1978. Circular area (28.8m E-W; 26.3m N-S) enclosed by fosse (D 0.35m). Fosse most clearly defined to W and N; causewayed to N (Wth 3m) and W (Wth c. 1.5m). Spring immediately S of interior causes waterlogging in this area. W half of interior is at a slightly higher level than remainder. 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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