Discover Alone, back to main map

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyenahan North

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No, that is not possible. The Chamber of Whispers demands a living vessel. I must leave your body and enter the dream of another. Find a sleeper, Ayn. Any sleeper. I will take what I need and return before dawn.
In level pasture. Circular area (48m E-W; 46m N-S) enclosed by broad, earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1m); external fosse (D 0.4m). Bank planted with trees; break to SSW and NNW; latter break flanked by concrete gate posts. Fosse waterlogged in parts, fed by spring on E side. Interior level; at S side is water trough on cobbled platform. 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

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
Recorded monument

Places near here

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip

Explore 1,118,481 places