What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lisleagh, County Cork: a 29-metre circular rath with two earthen banks and a waterlogged fosse between them. Its inner bank slopes gently downward, shaping a saucer-sized hollow where people may have stood, watched weather, kept fire, or avoided notice. The outer bank has been absorbed into a roadside boundary, and a possible entrance opens toward the north-east. Much of the fort now works as landscape: a slight ridge, a damp ditch, a field edge, and a story about living inside a small made circle.

In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 29m) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner face of inner bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.8m) slopes gently down towards centre giving saucer-shaped profile to interior; bank pushed into fosse to S for c. 4m. Intervening fosse (D 0.8m) waterlogged and overgrown. Outer bank (H 0.8m) incorporated into roadside boundary to SE. Possible entrance (Wth 5m) in inner bank to NNE, smaller corresponding break in outer bank; cattle gap through bank to NNW. Possible Man-made underground passage (CO019-134---) in interior. 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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