What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed, often through human arrogance. That is one of them: a circular defence in Ballygiblin, County Cork, built by people, used by people, forgotten by people, and repeated until the truth became a joke. The field has erased the edge, but the edge still exists beneath the grass, waiting for someone honest enough to stop laughing and begin listening.

In pasture, on E-facing slope, below crest of hill. Depicted as hachured oval raised area (c. 20m by c. 28m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map; circle of trees marks site on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP). 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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