What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lismeelcunnin stands atop a ridge in County Cork, watching both the Dalua and Brogeen valleys. Its earthen bank still rises a metre outside, enclosing a circular space wide enough for herds, tools and argument. Bowman measured the oval in 1934, and a hidden passage was later marked on the south-west rampart. The fort has survived pasture, overgrowth and quarrying because it was never merely a hole; it was a boundary drawn in soil, visibility and memory.

In pasture, atop ridge, looking N across Dalua River valley and S across Brogeen River valley. Circular area (57m E-W) enclosed by heavily overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.15m). Shallow external fosse (D 0.2m) visible to NNE; fosse area heavily overgrown elsewhere except to N where quarrying has taken place. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 193) as single-ramparted fort in D. Jones's; 'oval-shaped, axes 62yds and 57yds'; Man-made underground passage (CO023-06302-) on SW rampart. 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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