What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fairy forts. They are human ringforts, mislabelled by folklore after people stopped remembering they were built by hands. Ballindeasig is one: a sixty-metre earthen circle on a south-facing slope behind the house, partly garden now, marked on old maps as a hollow ring. The fairies took the credit only because the humans vanished from the story.

On S-facing slope directly behind Ballindeasig House (CO113-016002-). Circular area (diam. 60m) enclosed by low earthen bank W->SE; gravel pathway and house SE->W. Interior and bank in use as garden. Marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular hollow; from where the top of the bank might be outwards planted with trees. 1935 OS 6-inch map shows hachured bank free of trees, interior more oval-shaped, E bank possibly altered; trees beyond bank to E. See Excavations 1993, 6. 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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