What is recorded here

Mature trees break the green pasture and hide a circular earthen chamber in Ballynaboul. People called it a fairy fort because the boundary vanished under leaves and shadow. The worn gap in the bank still points toward the place where human fear and imagination built the wall.

In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Circular area (29.5m E-W; 28.8m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.1m); external fosse (D 0.6m) SSW->WSW, faint trace of silted-up fosse to E and S. Bank and interior planted with mature deciduous trees. Break (Wth 1.45m) in bank to E; gap worn through bank to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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