What is recorded here

Ballyvodane held a rectangular fort sixty yards across, its rampart still standing when Hartnett measured it in 1939. Ploughs and modern fencing have since flattened much of that defensible shape, leaving only a slight rise in the field north of the stream. The moat and bank probably kept out predators, rivals or flooding, but human hands have already erased the exact line they drew.

In ploughed field, to N of stream. Depicted as roughly square, hachured enclosure (c. 50m N-S; c. 50m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as roughly rectangular area (c. 60m N-S; c. 50m E-W) extending S from roadway, raised on E, S and W sides and topped by field boundary, on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; slight rise visible in area of site. According to Hartnett (1939, 174), 'rectangular fort' (64 yards N-S; 59 yards E-W) with 'modern earth and stone fence following the line of the rampart' and interior raised '4 feet over the ground level at the W, S and E, but almost level to the N'. 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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