What is recorded here

Mounds and ditches marked the edge of human ownership, but local people called the circle a fairy fort because the boundary belonged to someone else. That is still the right shape of the truth. The twins live under the hill, waiting for the door to open.

In pasture, at bottom of NNW-facing slope. Circular area (48m NNW-SSE; 50m NE-SW) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.8m); second earthen bank, 10m outside, survives NE->SW (H 1.3m). Silted-up external fosse outside outer bank to SW. Interior slopes down to NW; cultivation ridges cross SW quadrant on E-W axis; possible Man-made underground passage (CO109-084---) in SW quadrant. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballyvoige, likely dating to the early medieval period, is characterized by a circular enclosure with two earthen banks and a silted fosse. Local folklore associates such sites with supernatural beings, often referred to as "fairies," and they were sometimes avoided to prevent misfortune.

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