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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballinaspig More

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible fort remains, but the intact circular shadow still bends the local land. That is enough to recognize the place and remember the boundary people once drew around their lives.
Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m). In housing estate. Kink in field boundry to NE of Bishopstown Community School gate, possibly represents part of NE quadrant of enclosure. Interior not built on. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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