What is recorded here

Ballyhooly South holds a ghost circle twenty metres wide, its ditch overlapping another enclosure and pointing toward two possible ringforts in the same field. The land has kept these marks hidden beneath crops, waiting for drought or altitude to reveal them. People may have lived there before written memory, drawing boundaries that still touch across centuries.

Incomplete cropmark of fosse of subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989); to W, fosse overlaps with outer fosse of adjacent circular enclosure (13468); possible entrance to S. Two possible ringforts (12939,12940) in same field. 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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