What is recorded here

Moneyadda holds a thirty-seven metre circular scar where a low earthen bank still rings a raised grassy floor. The east gap remains visible beside a filled ditch, marking the only clear entrance to an ordinary house that became a fairy fort in local memory. People may have lived there before forgetting its name, yet the shape preserved the boundary between their world and the hidden one.

Situated on NE facing slope of low ridge in undulating countryside. Raised circular area (diam 37m N-S) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) and filled in fosse with possible entrance gap (Wth 1.5m) at East. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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