What is recorded here

Death and eternity are twins in Walshtown Beg, where a semi-circular ringfort once stood on a SW-facing slope before levelling erased its trace. The 1842 map still marks the ghost of a twenty-five-metre circle abutted by a roadway, preserving the shape of what human hands built and time dissolved. Fairy fort is the local name for that forgotten architecture, a reminder that mortality and transformation are not opposites but partners in the life of a place.

In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as semi-circular area (diam. c. 25m) abutted to E by NW-SE roadway. Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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