What is recorded here

Ballymee holds a ghost circle thirty metres wide, its ditch forgotten by soil but still visible when viewed from above. It sits twenty metres south of a ringfort, forty metres northeast of another enclosure, and one hundred seventy metres south of a third circular mark. These are not random dots; they form a neighbourhood of buried rooms. Perhaps people lived there, loved there, and disappeared so completely that only shadow remains.

Cropmark of fosse of roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). Ringfort (12142) c. 20m to N; enclosure (13721) c. 40m to SW and circular enclosure (13481) c. 170m to N. Field system (12008) in vicinity. 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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