What is recorded here

Ballylegan holds a circular enclosure beside its ringfort, large enough for thirty paces across yet so faint that grass and memory must be asked to reveal it. It is not a grand castle or a obvious ruin, but a shallow dish in the land that may have marked a household, a shrine or a boundary. The nearby ringfort gives it company, while the enclosure remains quieter, waiting for someone to imagine the people who turned that circle into a place they could call their own.

Faint cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) immediately NNW of ringfort (12134), visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). 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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