What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyhooly South: a 34.5-metre earthen ring on a gentle east-facing slope, partly cut back by a road but still marked by a low stone-faced bank. Called a lios locally, it may have been a boundary marker, a burial place, or a small stronghold before the field took it over. The road did not erase it; it only trimmed the circle, leaving enough shape for the land to keep remembering.

In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Circular area (34.5m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.4m) NE->SW; truncated by road boundary SW->NW; levelled bank visible as low rise NW->NE. Bank stone-faced externally, similar to field boundary. Locally known as a "lios". 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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