What is recorded here

Lackendarragh holds a twenty-nine metre ring where cattle still graze above a forgotten human threshold. The earth bank has flattened to shallow ridges on the west and north, but the east edge still stands one metre high, strewn with stones pulled from nearby fields. People lived inside that small circle before memory faded, likely tending herds or storing grain while weather stripped the structure. They called it a fairy fort because the shape resisted ordinary explanation, yet human hands built every ridge now hidden beneath grass.

In pasture, on W-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map with well in SW quadrant; indicated as field boundary which curves to respect site NE->WSW on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (diam. 29.1m) defined by nearly levelled bank to W and N which survives as numerous undulations; denuded earth and stone bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.5m) survives E->SE with stones exposed on its surface. Interior surface rough and undulating; littered with field clearance stones. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 548) as levelled. 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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