What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Killeen, County Cork: a 22 m earthen ring on a south-facing slope, with a shallow outside ditch, a small entrance gap to the south-east, and low mounds inside. It is the kind of place people once called a fairy fort because it looks made for hidden life rather than ordinary use. A person may have stood at the gap, watched the valley, and left before darkness took the field.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular raised area (22m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 2.75m) external fosse (D 0.2m) NNE->SSE; counterscarp bank (H 0.6m) SW->NW. Gap to SSE (Wth 2m). Field boundary, running N-S, crosses enclosure on E side. Interior raised on S side to compensate for hillslope; low, irregular sod-covered mounds on W side. 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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