What is recorded here

Ban a tSusa is a worn earthen ring in Cork pasture, its shallow bank barely rising above the grass. The circle measures thirty-two metres across, small enough for a family farm but large enough to exclude ordinary sight. Its southeast gap appeared on maps before modern ploughs touched the earth, suggesting the opening served purpose rather than decay. The fairies may have built it for themselves, leaving humans only the shape and the memory of exclusion.

In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope. Circular area (32.5m N-S) enclosed by worn and denuded earthen bank (H 1.45m) SSE->E. Bank levelled E->SSE; section to ESE appears to have been levelled recently; break depicted to SE on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. 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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