What is recorded here

Fairy forts hide in plain sight, wearing earth and grass like skin. Monablanchameen is no exception: a shallow bank circles wet pasture at the valley’s end, large enough to walk around and small enough to overlook. The pit at its centre and the faint rectangular shadow beside it suggest someone once lived there, marked the ground, and left behind a shape the valley still repeats.

At the NW end of small NW-SE valley, a little below the crest of a hill, with land sloping fairly gently to the valley floor to the S and SW, in wet pasture. There are moderate views within the valley. A circular enclosure (diam. 35m N-S; 39m E-W) defined by a bank (int. H c. 0.4m; ext. H 1m; Wth 1.5m). In the flat interior there is a pit (dims. 4m N-S x 6m E-W; D c. 60m) at the centre and a possible house platform SE of centre, consisting of a slight rectangular depression (dims. 3m NE-SW x 5m NW-SE; D 0.2m) orientated NW-SE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 May 2020

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