What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed because people stopped remembering the hands that built them. In Lohort West that much is visible still: a shallow circular scar in pasture, grass-covered and partly hidden by a field boundary, with a faint outer ditch catching shadow from above. The fairies are the forgotten part, not the truth.

In pasture, on N-facing slope, below crest of hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area on 1937 OS 6-inch map, with scarp to NE replaced by linear field boundary. Circular area (36m NE-SW; 36m NW-SE) defined by grass-covered scarp (H 0.9m) E->NNW; linear, heavily overgrown, low field boundary NNW->NE; enclosing element not visible NE->E due to overgrowth. Interior covered in tall grass and reeds similar to surrounding field. Bank and external fosse of circular enclosure visible as shadow site in aerial photograph (AP, Dr. D.D.C. Pochin Mould). 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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