What is recorded here

Enclosure in Ballyboght is a circular earth and stone bank, eleven metres across, set into a north-facing pasture slope in County Cork. The bank still stands from the south to the northeast, rising one and a half metres outside and dipping thirty centimetres inside, while grass-covered clearance stones scatter the uneven floor. Locals call it a fort, though no wall, gate or hearth has been named to confirm the claim. It may have marked a boundary, a shelter or a childhood game, but the land has kept that answer buried under grass and time.

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (11m N-S) defined by earth and stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.4m) S->NE; bank disturbed elsewhere but not completely removed. Interior slopes down gently to N; raised on N side to compensate for hillslope; surface uneven due to grass-covered mounds of field clearance stones. Locally known as a fort. 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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