What is recorded here

Shanbally Fort occupied a Cork ridge as a broad triangular enclosure before farming erased most of its boundary. Its western and eastern edges still hint at shallow ditches, while the southern limit has vanished entirely into memory and soil. A large circular depression remains at the centre, overgrown and ringed by discarded tree trunks, suggesting that the site resisted complete forgetting even after it stopped being a fort.

In tillage, atop ridge. Depicted as hachured roughly triangular enclosure (max. L 130m N-S; max. Wth at S end: 80m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; marked 'site of' on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Triangular area defined on W and E sides by shallow fosse; no visible surface trace of enclosing element on S side. Large natural-looking circular depression at centre of interior; depression overgrown, with tree trunks dumped against its perimeter. Earthwork (13826) and standing stone (9904) in adjoining field to W. 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 Attached image uploaded courtesy of Jean-Charles Caillere

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