What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballylegan: a 30-metre earthen ring on a north-facing slope, marked on maps from 1842 to 1934. Ploughing levelled much of it, yet a rough circular patch resists the furrow and satellite imagery still shows the bank beside the field boundary. The land may have swallowed the wall but it has not forgotten the shape.

In tillage, on N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842, 1906 and 1934 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; roughly circular area (30m E-W; 28m N-S) left untouched in ploughed field. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R714), immediately to E of field boundary. 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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