What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human making: circular banks and ditches where people lived, kept stock or marked territory before records began. In Ballyhooly South the ridge carries one such ring, with another ringfort nearby, suggesting a small settled place rather than a random heap. The fairy name comes later, when people stopped knowing the owners and gave the shape to smaller beings.

In pasture, atop ridge on gentle SE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 22m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area on 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (30m N-S) raised c. 0.4m above surrounding field level. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W418). Ringfort (CO035-001---) c. 40m to SW. 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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