Enclosure in Ballynahown

In rough hill pasture, on a S-facing slope with views of Trafrask Harbour and Bantry Bay. A roughly circular area (9.8m N-S; 8.6m E-W) is defined by upright slabs (T 0.2m; H 0.55m) largely obscured by a dense cover of gorse and spaced irregularly on the perimeter. The level interior is in rough pasture. There is a fulacht fia (CO103-030001-) c. 110m to the W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.