What is recorded here

Fairy forts are misnamed: ringforts are human, built and lost. Ballyshoneen is no different, though cattle and farm wheels have worn much of it flat. The surviving bank still marks a chosen boundary, and the farmyard above it continues the same human act of shaping land.

In disused farmyard. Depicted as hachured, roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Arc (31m N-S) formed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.3m) survives N->S. Farmbuildings built on line of bank elsewhere. Interior cut up due to cattle trampling and farm machinery. Farm trackway skirts bank N->E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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