What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyvackey: a 33m earthen ring on a SW-facing pasture slope, its low ridge and shallow ditch still drawing people into wondering what lived there before records began.

In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Roughly circular area (33m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by low rise (H 0.6m) with shallow external fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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