What is recorded here

Two rings of earth, one ditch, and a flat grass roof mark the fairy fort in Ballyshehan. It is the kind of place children run around at dusk, believing the ground is making music instead of being empty. The belief is not stupidity; it is memory without evidence.

Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Access denied; bivallate circular enlcosure (diam. c. 20m) visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R525) as cropmark of banks and external fosses. 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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