What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballylinchy: a 26-metre earthen ring on a north-facing slope, its scarp still standing two metres high while plough ridges cut across the middle. People may have lived there before fields took it back, or fairies may have simply claimed the shape and refused to leave. Either way, the ring remains visible in pasture, marking a boundary between human use and something older that never fully departed.

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (26.4m NNE->SSW) defined by scarp (H 1.95m) SSW->NNE; levelled bank surviving as undulation NNE->E. Cultivation ridges cross interior NE-SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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