What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballygarrane is a vanished rath in County Cork, Ireland. Ancestral hands built a thirty-metre circle on a ridge, perhaps for warning, worship or residence. People lived beside it, marked it on maps and forgot it. The land retains more than memory when heart and witness align.

In ploughed field, atop ridge. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842, 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps; fosse shown as surviving S->NNW on 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; concentration of stones scattered across site. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of fosse in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R522). Ringfort (CO026-137---) lies c. 160m to WNW. 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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