What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballybraher (imokilly By., Kilmahon Par.) stands in pasture immediately east of a steep sided stream valley, with a one-metre earthen bank arcing west to northeast beside a shallow external fosse. The 1842 map drew a full circle, but aerial photography from 1989 showed northern fences levelled and southern boundaries possibly absorbing ancient earth. People may have lived inside this ring before fields and fences rewrote its shape, while local imagination still calls it a fairy fort because ordinary explanation refuses to fit the hidden completeness of the place.

In pasture, immediately E of steep sided stream valley. Depicted as circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Arc formed by earthen bank (H 1m) survives W->NE, with shallow external fosse; field boundary to S may incorporate earthen bank. Aerial photograph (CASAP, August 1989) shows arc W->NE and immediate field fences to N levelled. 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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