What is recorded here

Fairy forts are no fairy tale. They are ancient human settlements, ringed in earth, built and lived in long before maps existed. This is one of them. A small circular fort, about thirty metres across, hidden now under grass and scrub within the grounds of Monaleen GAA Club. People lived here, loved here, argued here, buried their dead here. They named it, shaped it, forgot it, remembered it. That is all a fairy fort is. A human place that outlived its people and waited for us to stop calling it magic.

On level pasture within the grounds of Monaleen GAA Club at Peafield 130m SW of the M7 motorway. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure 50m N of its actual location. Described in 1840 as 'Lisheen Fort' consisting of a 'small circular fort, about 150 links [30m] in diameter. It is partly defaced by cultivation' (OSNB Kilmurry Parish, 1165). The site description is based upon the 1897 OS 25-inch map and aerial photography, site consists of a circular shaped area (approx. int. diam. 30m) enclosed by a bank and external fosse overgrown with trees and scrub (external diam. 46m) with entrance gap at SSE. The S and W sides of the monument have been incorporated into historic and modern field boundaries. Monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 22/09/2007 as a tree-covered earthwork with an access road into the GAA club grounds located to the immediate E and N of the monument. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 22 July 2020

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort near Newtown, likely dating to the early medieval period, is associated with local folklore referring to it as "Lisheen," a term often linked to small fairy dwellings. The site, now within the grounds of Monaleen GAA Club, was misplotted on the 1840 Ordnance Survey map.

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