What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballydineen, County Cork, is an earthen ringfort about 45m across, mapped in 1842 and still traceable in oats and shadow. Its causewayed entrances faced southeast and west-southwest, admitting people or pretending to admit them. The field has been levelled and cropped, yet the circle returns whenever rain or sun touches the soil.

In tillage. Depicted as hachured, slightly oval-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 45m), with external fosse N->SW, on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; field under crop of oats. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (CUCAP; BDS 15). Causewayed entrances across fosse, to SE and WSW, visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (CASAP); faint trace of smaller enclosure within interior. 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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