What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Monaparson, County Cork: a roughly circular earthen ring, 39m by 36.5m, with a 1.5m bank and outer ditch, cut by gaps to north, east and south-west. It stood on a south-east facing pasture slope until levelled around 1987. People may have lived, herded or hidden there before the field took it back.
In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (39m E-W; 36.5m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.5m); external fosse (D 0.9m), deepest to N. Gaps in bank to N, ENE, ESE and SSW. Levelled c. 1987.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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