What is recorded here

On a low ridge above Ballyorney House, a sixty-three-metre oval bank still holds the shape of an old fort, though beech trees now grow upon its scarped edge. People later faced the earth with stone and planted it as a garden feature, erasing the entrance and ditch that once marked it as a defensive rath. The fortraness faded into ornament, but the ridge remembers the boundary drawn long before the trees claimed it.

On a low ridge in pasture, c. 90m to the NE of Ballyorney House. Indicated on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a circular tree plantation with the designation 'Fort'. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted that this raised oval area (63m NNE-SSW; 45m WNW-ESE) was defined by a wide low bank of earth and stone, which had been faced externally with drystone masonry in relatively modern times. There was no trace of a fosse and the original entrance was not recognisable. It is now defined by a scarp (H 0.35m) upon which mature beech trees are growing. Possibly a rath that was adapted and reused as a landscape feature. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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