What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Baltydaniel East is an earthen ringfort on a north-facing hillock, its twenty-eight-metre circle marked by a two-metre bank and shallow fosse. A causewayed gap faces west-northwest, inviting entry into grass that slopes gently downward. Grove White called it one of two interesting raths near Pencil Hill House, where Mr. R.H. Spratt reportedly found a broken bow during excavation. The fort remains overgrown and quiet, preserving the shape of hands that built, defended or abandoned it before memory faded.

In pasture, atop hillock, on N-facing slope. Circular area (28m E-W; 27m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 2.08m; ext. H 1.25m) with external fosse (D 1.55m). Fosse deepest NE-> SSW; infilled to SSW; progressively shallower SSW->NW. Causewayed entrance (Wth 2.6m) to WNW. Interior raised; slopes gently down to WNW. Bank and fosse heavily overgrown; interior grass-covered. One of two ringforts (CO025-052---) referred to by Grove White (1905-25, vol. 4, 155) as 'two interesting raths' to W of Pencil Hill House (now Beechfield House), where according to 'Mr. R.H. Spratt, of Pencil Hill...a broken bow, among other relics, was discovered' while excavating one of the forts. 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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