What is recorded here

Ballynacourty and Carrowmore still share a boundary marked by the ghost of a forty-two metre stone circle. Holt recorded a third of the wall remaining in 1912, but flooding and time have reduced the ancient fort to a faint aerial shadow and a short length of drystone. The fairies likely reclaimed their own fort, leaving human maps to trace what the land has already forgotten.

In land liable to flooding. Marked on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 42m) defined by a line of hachures from NW through E to S and by a pronounced curving laneway from S to NW. Described by Holt (1912, 232, no. 64) as a 'nameless caher, of the wall of which about one third remains, forming the mearing between Carrowmore and Ballynacourty'. Apart from a short length of drystone walling (L 4m; Wth 2m) along the line of the townland boundary, no visible surface trace survives. however, its outline is visible on aerial photographs (https://binged.it/2h5ZnXn last accessed 27 July 2017). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 27 July 2017

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