What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballynamuck, County Cork: a roughly circular earthen ringfort, 28m north-south and 26m east-west, rising 1.4m above the pasture, with a shallow fosse at its south-east edge and a saucer-shaped interior. Mapped as early as 1842, it has watched cattle, weather and forgetting for centuries. People may have lived, hidden or merely circled it before leaving it to legend. The fort keeps its shape because nobody has decided what it loses.

In pasture. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as arc SE->W of single hachures on 1905 OS 6-inch map; as circular raised area with external fosse to S on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Roughly circular area (28m N-S; 26m E-W) raised 1.4m above level of surrounding field. Interior saucer shaped, surrounded by fosse (D 0.45m) SSE->SW; slight trace of silted-up fosse to W as gentle slope down to base of scarp. Natural mound or raised area a short distance beyond enclosure to N. 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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