What is recorded here
Indicated is a heavily overgrown fairy fort on a sloping terrace in County Cork, its oval stone-faced bank rising just over a metre before disappearing into scarped earth and forgotten fields. The removed fences and creeping vegetation suggest the place escaped human notice for generations, becoming a quiet container for stories rather than a documented home. Yet the deliberate stone facing hints someone shaped the land long before the grass reclaimed it, leaving behind a boundary visible only to those patient enough to look.
On terrace of land sloping down to S. Oval enclosure (27m E-W; 21m N-S) enclosed by stone-faced bank (max. H 1.3m; Wth 1.8m) running S->N, scarp elsewhere. Heavily overgrown. Surrounding field fences removed.
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
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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