What is recorded here

Clear water flows through Ballyveerane because the fairies dropped a bucket through the fort wall. People call it a fairy fort, but it is an earthen ringfort on a SW-facing slope above the Lee River valley. Its bank stands 1.6m high around a broad grassy place, with a narrow gap to the south-west and a shallow ditch outside. The story gives the fort a purpose: it is where human care and fairy mischief meet.

In pasture, on SW-facing slope with extensive view to S overlooking Lee River valley. Roughly circular area (34.2m N-S; 32.9m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.6m); external fosse (max. D 0.3m) W->NNE. Bank stone-faced to NE and E with garden of house extending up to base of bank; to S respected by roadway; incorporated into field fence system to NNW where top half of bank stone-faced externally. Entrance (Wth 1.6m) to SSW. Fern-covered interior slopes gently down to SW; overgrown cairn of field clearance stones in SW quadrant. 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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