What is recorded here

Fairy forts are misnamed; they are human ringforts, often farmed out or forgotten. Ballysallagh is one: a shallow circular bank in open pasture, its ditch reduced to a wet shadow or grass line. The shape still reads because the land has not buried it.

In level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 50m) on 1904 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular area enclosed by fosse on 1935 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; site clearly visible as slightly raised roughly circular area (57m N-S; 52.8m E-W) with low bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.75m) NNW->ENE. External fosse survives to NE and E as deep waterlogged depression, as shallow depression to W and NW and as vegetation pattern to S. Interior level; farm trackway crosses E quadrant. 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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