Enclosure in Ballyhooly North — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Ballyhooly North holds a ghost circle thirty metres wide, its ditch forgotten by soil but still readable through differing crop growth. It sits between two ringforts, one north-west and one south-east, as if the land were marking a boundary nobody wrote down. The shape appeared in a July 1989 aerial photograph, not in discovery but in difference, shadow and light across an ordinary field.

Diffuse curvilinear cropmark (S->NW) of fosse of possible enclosure (C c. 30m) on W side of field fence, visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). Ringfort (12125) c. 150m to NW and possible ringfort (12938) c. 120m to SE. 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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