What is recorded here

Mountblakeney holds a faded ringfort where a bank and ditch once drew a small circle in the pasture. It has lost much of its shape, yet the earth still marks a place set apart for life, guard or memory.

In reclaimed pasture 150m W of the townland boundary with Thomastown. Earthwork (LI047-042----) lies 250m to E. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. 26m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by a bank from N-S-W reduced to a scarp elsewhere with external fosse from W-NW. Outline of scrub-covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages where it is intersected at E by field boundary running NW-SE. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 August 2021

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Mountblakeney is a circular-shaped enclosure likely dating to the early medieval period, used as a defensive or agricultural settlement. It is associated with local folklore surrounding fairies and other supernatural beings, common in Irish tradition.

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