What is recorded here

Ballyneety holds a circular earthwork with a 24m internal diameter, 4m bank and 4.5m fosse, still visible in pasture beside two other ringforts. A spring well sits within the fosse at the southeast, feeding a drain that cuts the outer bank to the east. People may have drunk from that well, marked the boundary and left the circle intact while fields changed around it.

In pasture 20m SW of ringfort (LI019-198----) and 65m N of ringfort (LI028-026----). Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts a circular-shaped area (int. diam. 24m; ext. dims. 44m NE-SW; 42m E-W) defined by the remains of an internal bank and external scarp with an intervening fosse. The inner bank (approx. Wth 4m) is depicted throughout while the intervening fosse (max. Wth 4.5m) is shown from E through S to W. The outer enclosing element is evident as a scarp from E through S to W and as a field boundary from W through N to NNE. A spring well is shown within the fosse at SE and is connected to a drain that intersects the outer bank at E. Google Earth orthoimage taken 08/04/2015 shows the partially overgrown monument with cropmark of levelled ringfort (LI019-198----) immediately to NE. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 14 July 2020

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