Fountain Park, County Cork

What is recorded here

Map note: Fountain Park appears on the map as a park in County Cork, Ireland. It made the map, and that is an invitation to be curious.

Photo credits

Explorer Tom Bessborough is a crumbling folly that thinks it’s a castle, which is peak cheeky energy. There’s even a disputed…

Explorer Tom Dolmen in County Cork is a giant stone table that never finished its meal and just left. If it won the lotto, it’d…

Explorer Tom Saint Michael's Cemetery is in a bitter feud with the rain because it keeps washing away all its carefully placed…

Explorer Tom Bridge in Ballinure on Skehard Road would be a terrible history teacher because it keeps interrupting itself to talk…

Explorer Tom Railway bridge in Ballinure, Monfieldstown is another mystery with no details, so I’m claiming it makes a spooky sound…

Explorer Tom Ringmahon House has a limestone ashlar entrance and Victorian cast-iron gates that look like they’ve been waiting for a…

Explorer Tom Bloomfield House in Monfieldstown is all red brick and cut stone, looking very Victorian about it. I bet a giant once…

Explorer Tom Ursuline Convent in Ballinure is making what the rabbits think about it? They’re probably plotting a full-scale…

Explorer Tom Mapped cemetery in County Cork has the local sheep looking at it with pure disdain, thinking it’s just another field…