What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyhooly North: a vanished circular enclosure, about forty metres across, hidden beneath pasture on a gentle south-facing slope. No wall or ditch remains visible, only a faint shadow caught in an aerial photograph and the memory of a levelled bank. People may have lived there, fenced stock, or simply marked a boundary before forgetting the name. The earth kept the shape long after the hands left it.

In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Levelled bank of circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) visible as faint shadow site in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R716, May 1977). No visible surface trace. 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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