What is recorded here

Marianne and the children stood at the edge of the field in Rathcoola East, looking for a fort that no longer broke the sky. The fairies had moved the ring inside the hill, leaving behind a shallow dish of earth and a fence-like bank that marked the door they had used. Marianne touched the soft ground where the entrance had dipped eastward, and the children swatted invisible mosquitoes from their arms. They walked home before dark, carrying no proof except the certainty that some rooms in Cork do not believe they have been forgotten.

In pasture, in commanding position. Circular, saucer-shaped raised area (diam. 42m) defined by shallow fosse with external bank (H 2.4m). Outer bank field-fence-like for much of its circumference. Hartnett (1939, 206) noted 'entrance was to the E, as is evidenced by a dip in the inner (levelled) bank at this point'. Levelled in 1984. 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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