Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Manning

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
View what I want to do
No photo yet

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

In pasture, atop knoll, steep sided to NW and N. Circular area (33m E-W; 28m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2.9m to base of fosse) with intervening fosse survives all round. Outer bank (int. H 0.7m to base of fosse; ext. H 1.8m) survives SSW->NE, fortifying steep slope of knoll. Level terrace outside outer bank to SW. Causewayed entrance (Wth 4.2m) to SSW. Interior slopes gently down to S; crossed by remains of cultivation ridges on N-S axis. One of a group of five ringforts (CO027-088---; CO027-089---; CO027-092---; CO027-093---) at W side of townland. 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

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.