What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballynamona is a broken earthen ring on a low ridge above the Argideen estuary, still marked by grass, soil and a thin stone edge. It is the kind of place people named before they understood it, as if the land had made a room and waited to be asked what it was for.

In pasture on lower N side of low ridge overlooking Argideen river estuary. Roughly circular area (c. 30m E-W) divided N-S by townland boundary. According to local information, bank of earth and stone (H c. 1.2m) with external fosse; levelled on W side c. 1983. E side heavily overgrown; earthen bank (H 0.8m) SE->S. 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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