What is recorded here

Stookeen Fort is a ruined stone ringfort in rough Cork pasture, its circular wall crashed to knee height on a south-east slope. Large boulders still mark the inner and outer faces at the north-east, while a later wall follows the old line to the north-west. An underground passage cuts through the interior, suggesting the site was more than a boundary heap. People may have lived, hidden or worshipped there before the wall fell, but the stones no longer say which.

In rough pasture, on break in SE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (19m N-S; 18m E-W) enclosed by ruined stone wall (H 0.65m; Wth 1.5m); overgrown; some large boulders visible to NE forming inner and outer facing with rubble core. Later wall built on line of ruined cashel wall to NW. Man-made underground passage (CO142-054002-) in interior. 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

Stookeen Fort is a roughly circular early-medieval ringfort, likely dating to between the 6th and 10th centuries, characterized by a ruined stone wall and situated on a south-east-facing slope. Local folklore, common to many such sites in West Cork, may associate it with fairy legend or ancient druidic activity, though specific traditions are not recorded.

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