What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyviniter Lower: a 29-metre earthen ring on a gentle south-east slope, its bank half-swallowed by trees and its shallow ditch fading to the west. It stands eighty metres from a larger ringfort, as if two households shared one hillside before people stopped measuring either. The name suggests locals once saw more than soil: a boundary drawn for creatures that do not obey human borders.

In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope. Circular area (29m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.4m) S->ESE; external fosse (max. D 1.8m) S->NW. Bank overgrown with trees and some bushes. Bank low and fosse shallow to W. Ringfort (CO033-015---) lies c. 80m to NW. 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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