What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballycotton, County Cork: a ringfort, now levelled into tillage on an east-facing slope. It kept a semicircular shadow on old maps, thirty metres across, before the eastern part disappeared under the plough. What remains is a absent shape, a hole in the land that once held walls, doors, lives and the risk of losing them.

In tillage, on E-facing slope. Shown on all eds of OS 6-inch map as hachured semicircular area (diam. c. 30m N-S); E area removed. Levelled; no visible surface trace. 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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