What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyviniter Lower is a circular pasture area thirty-one and a half metres across, enclosed by a shallow fosse and mapped as a raised enclosure since 1842. Its south edge rises slightly to balance the gentle slope, while overgrowth softens the boundary between human making and wild regression. The name suggests locals once doubted whether people or fairies built it, but the measured earth and deliberate shape point to a residence, shelter or boundary marker from before written memory.

In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope, immediately to S of E-W field boundary. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps; as hachured circular raised area on 1905 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (31.5m N-S) enclosed by fosse (D 1.1m). Interior slopes down gently to S; raised 0.75m on S side to compensate for hillslope. Edge of interior and fosse heavily overgrown. 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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