What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lisduff, County Cork: a circular earthen ringfort, 33 metres north-south and 35.5 metres east-west, with a 1.7-metre-high scarp, shallow western fosse, southern terracing, a faint inner lip to the northeast, and ground rising toward the centre. People may have lived there, buried jars there, or danced around it when nobody was watching. The earth keeps its shape because it has been watched, remembered, and left alone long enough to become solid.

Circular area (33m N-S; 35.5m E-W) defined by scarp (H 1.7m); with shallow fosse W->N. Scarp terraced to S; slight inner lip survives to NE. Interior rises towards centre. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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