In level pasture at Ballydaly in mid Cork, a ring barrow, a low circular earthen mound of the kind typically raised over prehistoric burials, was levelled during land reclamation at some point before living memory. The ground gives no indication that anything was ever there.

The site sits roughly seventy metres south of a ringfort, and the pairing is not incidental. In 1937, a researcher named Broker documented the area around what was then Dan Gearon's land and noted two nearly levelled enclosures close to the large fort, one measuring around thirty yards in diameter and another about ten. One of these was described as unusual even then, said to have its fosse, the surrounding ditch, positioned on the inside of the rampart rather than the outside, which is an atypical arrangement and the kind of detail that tends to attract archaeological attention. Whether that peculiarity reflects a different function, a different period of construction, or simply a mis-reading of a heavily degraded earthwork is now impossible to determine from the surface. A second possible ring barrow survives approximately a hundred and fifty metres to the south-east, making this a cluster rather than an isolated monument, though even that survivor is classed only as possible.