What is recorded here

Half-buried in wet pasture and scrub, the Ballyfookoon ringfort keeps its oval shape despite a field drain cutting through its fosse. Its northern entrance is probably modern, yet the scarped edge and ditch still mark a small enclosed life in low ground where view and visibility failed. The fort does not command the landscape; it disappears into it, suggesting people valued shelter, boundary and privacy more than distance or display.

In low lying level wet pasture with poor views in all directions. The ringfort is located on and just to the N of the townland boundary with Killonahan and 500m E of a ringfort (LI021-055----). The site is depicted as a small circular fort on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map within a rectangular shaped field. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. diam. 27m N-S; 35m E-W) where the S bank has been partially removed by a later field boundary. Inspected by the ASI in 2000 and described as a raised ovoid-shaped area (int. diam. 14m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a scarped edge and an external fosse (Wth 6.6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m) with a ramped entrance (Wth 6m) at N, which appears to be modern. A field drain flows from a ditch at NE along the E and S side of the ringfort through the fosse draining to the SW. The ringfort is overgrown with scrub woodland which is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 12 August 2020

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