What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyregan More is a circular earthen ringfort on an ESE-facing slope in County Cork, Ireland. It measures about 36 metres across, has a seven-metre entrance to the southeast, and still stands beside a curving road that cut through its northern bank. People may have lived there, defended it, or abandoned it before roads and fields changed the land. The fairies never left. They wait for the chance to take back what belongs to them.

In tillage, on ESE-facing slope. Circular area (36.3m E-W; 35.5m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.15m); intervening fosse and second earthen bank (H 1.2m) NE->ENE and SW->NW. Road, curving slightly, truncates second bank and intervening fosse on N side. Entrance (Wth 7m) to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballyregan More, likely dating to the early medieval period, features a circular enclosure with double banks and a fosse, typical of Irish ringfort settlements. Local folklore may associate it with fairy activity, as suggested by its common name, though specific traditions are not recorded.

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