What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human places misnamed because people stopped remembering they were human. In Longstown, County Cork, a circular earthwork about thirty-five metres across stood on an east-facing slope before ploughs and development removed it. A rectangular enclosure and a cooking site still mark the land nearby, witness that people lived, ate and belonged there. The fairies inherited only what forgetting abandoned.

In pasture, on E-facing slope. Shown as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; slight rise visible in field. No other surface trace. According to Power (1918, 202) 'The O.M. records two lioses - one ofthem square. Both have unfortunately disappeared, along with a third which the map has left unrecorded'. Rectangular enclosure (CO064-096---) c. 170m to E; fulacht fiadh (CO064-094---) c. 200m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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