What is recorded here

Indicated is a collapsed stone ringfort at the foot of Ballyvouskill Mountain in County Cork, Ireland. Its twenty-eight-metre circle still holds old cultivation ridges and a low cairn, suggesting people lived there before the wall fell into grazing land. The fort has no grand name, only a marker on old maps, yet it preserves the shape of a household that time has half-erased.

Shown as circular field on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. In rough grazing at foot of E side of Ballyvouskill Mountain. Circular area (diam. 28m) enclosed by collapsed stone wall (H 1.4m; T 3.5m), topped by later field fence. Original external facing survives in places to W and N. Old cultivation ridges cross interior; low cairn (diam. 2.5m; H 0.5m) in NE quadrant. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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