What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballysallagh, County Cork, is a multi-vallate earthen ringfort about 55 metres across, hidden now under pasture on north- and east-facing slopes. Its inner and outer banks and fosses remain only as low undulations running east-southeast to north-northwest and west-southwest to north-northwest, with faint external depressions marking their edges. People may have lived, hidden, or worshipped there before the land smoothed them into mystery.

In pasture, on N-and E-facing slopes. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as multi-vallate circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m). Low undulations ESE->NNE and WSW->NNW with external depressions indicate position of inner and outer banks and fosses. No other surface trace. 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

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