What is recorded here

Erased but remembered, the Ballyhindon ringfort kept its shape in fieldstones and local names after ploughs removed its ridge. Windele found that small circle south of Ballyhindon castle in 1897, deaf to the cave tale printed for it, while the land itself still answered in the word lios. What was lost is not nothing; it is the part that must be carried instead of pointed at.

In pasture, atop hillock, towards S end of small triangular field. Depicted as hachured penannular raised area (diam. c. 35m), open to NE, on 1934 OS 6-inch map, with lime kiln indicated immediately outside site to SE. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Locally known as site of 'lios'. According to Windele (1897, 379), while 'looking for the caves of Ballyhindon fort (crypts they were), figured in the Dublin Penny Journal' he was shown 'an erased fort' with its circle marked 'by a collection of fieldstones', about two fields S of Ballyhindon castle (CO027-107---). 'The diameter is small, and no cave appears, nor did the farmer, whose ground it is on, ever remember hearing of it.' (ibid.). 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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