What is recorded here

A narrow stone chamber and clay-cut cell lie hidden beneath a Ballykilty hillside, waiting for someone brave enough to crawl into their darkness. The creephole leads from a rectangular room into a rounded vault, suggesting a deliberate descent rather than a random collapse. McCarthy wondered whether a faded field fence marked a lost ringfort, but the passage itself remains stubbornly separate, preserving a purpose no longer spoken aloud.

In pasture, on hillside, discovered during ploughing in 1975. Investigated and described by J.P. McCarthy (1977, 164-5). Stone-built rectangular chamber (L 2.45m; Wth 0.65m; H 0.7m); long axis NE-SW; roofed with capstones. Lintelled creephole at W end leading to circular clay-cut cell (L 0.7m; Wth 0.8m; H 0.6m) now blocked with soil. Appears to be unassociated but McCarthy suggests that 'curved portion [of] field fence immediately [to] E may indicate former existence of ringfort'. 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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