What is recorded here

Indicated is a broken fairy fort at the foot of Bailocke Mountain, where a collapsed lime kiln still leans against its stone-faced bank. People may have fired quicklime there, marked roads, or simply made heat visible before darkness. The gaps in the rampart stop reading like a completed circle and begin sounding like a place that refused to be owned.

In pasture, on break in N-facing slope at base of Bailocke Mountain. Circular area (41.5m E-W; 39.5m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m); external fosse (max. D 0.8m) survives to S and W, partially infilled. Bank broken to N (Wth 1m), E (Wth 3.5m) and W (Wth 2m). Collapsed overgrown lime kiln against ENE bank; bank stone-faced both internally and externally. Interior partially overgrown with briars, slopes gently down to N. 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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