What is recorded here

Fairy fort, Ballyogaha West is a circular earthen ringfort on a terrace above a southern stream, facing Caherdesert. Its inner bank still stands one point six metres high around a saucer-shaped interior, while a narrow fosse and outer bank preserve the shape of an entrance that once admitted people, animals or visitors into a lived space. The stones may have belonged to a household, a shrine or a boundary marker, but the earth remembers the circle and the region still repeats it in story.

In pasture, on natural terrace above stream to S; view to NW of Caherdesert (CO054-020001-). Circular area (33.4m N-S; 39m E-W) enclosed by inner earthen bank with stone core (H 1.6m); intervening fosse (D 0.3m) NNW->SSE; outer bank (H 1m) NW->SSE. Entrance to SSE, with causeway, edged to E by radial bank running from inner to outer bank. Slight depression runs into interior from entrance. Interior saucer-shaped; terraced level around base of bank, slightly hollowed in centre. 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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