What is recorded here

Billeragh West holds a D-shaped ringfort where a straight road boundary meets a curving earthen bank, creating a partial enclosure rather than a complete circle. The bank rises 1.2m, shallow fosses cut into the ground beside it, and the interior remains raised beneath heavy growth. A disused laneway skirts the western edge, suggesting the fort has long shared its slope with passing traffic and pasture. Local people still call it a fairy fort, blending human defence with older mystery.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. D-shaped area (straight side c. 45.7m NW-SE; projecting c. 21m to SW) defined by road boundary on straight side and by earthen bank (ext. H 1.2m) SE->NW. External fosse (D 0.2m) survives best SE->SW. Internal fosse (D 0.2m) visible to W. Interior raised; heavily overgrown. Disused laneway skirts enclosure to W. Locally known as site of ringfort. 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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