What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Ballyeightragh: a 30 m earthen ring on a south-facing pasture slope, its outer bank 1.1 m high and inner ditch choked to the north. People later dumped field stones along the rim, treating the old edge as a convenient boundary rather than a treasure. What lived there before the stones arrived is no longer certain, but the shape still holds like a forgotten room waiting to be remembered.
In pasture on break in S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m); overgrown fosse to N. Bank used as dump for field stones. Interior heavily overgrown; mostly inaccessible.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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