What is recorded here

Indicated was a circular fairy fort roughly fifty metres across on an east-facing Cork slope, visible only through fence lines long after its earth disappeared under tillage. The arc from north-northwest to southeast still bends in the field boundaries, preserving the shape of a place people stopped walking around. It may have been a human home, a boundary marker, or a warning not to build there, but the land kept its outline even when memory faded.

In tillage, on E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; arc NNW->SE survives in field fence system on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. 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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