What is recorded here

Ballyinsheen Beg holds a steep stone ringfort where random limestone courses still rise nearly two metres above rough pasture. Its west-southwest gap faces a collapsed outer wall that may have guided people across an unstable entrance, while a faint internal partition divides the small platform. The name fairy fort suggests that later listeners believed the structure belonged to unseen neighbours rather than ordinary residents.

In undulating rough pastureland and outcropping limestone, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This almost circular cashel-like enclosure (24m N-S; 23m E-W) consists of a revetted platform. The randomly coursed revetment (H 1-1.95m) is steep and well-preserved, and survives up to six/seven courses in height. A gap (Wth 1.5m) occurs in it at WSW. To the S of this, immediately outside the enclosure, there is a short length of collapsed wall (L c. 6m) extending to the WSW, suggesting a pathway or causeway into the interior. A collapsed and grass-covered wall (Wth 1m; H 0.2m) extends from ENE-WSW across the N part of the undulating interior. Collapsed earth and stone field boundaries (Wth 2m; H 0.25m) are traceable outside and parallel with the enclosure perimeter from N-E, at a distance of c. 5.5m from the revetment. There is a hut site (CL008-045010-) c. 16m to the W. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 4 October 2022

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