What is recorded here

Friars Garden was a thirty-metre circular enclosure above Kilquane church, marked on the 1842 map before human hands levelled its earth. It may have been a quiet monastery kitchen garden, a hidden fairy fort, or both, since local names often blend faith and fantasy. The site vanished under pasture and plough, leaving only a coordinate and a suggestion that the boundary between the sacred and the strange was once thin enough to walk through.

Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), and named 'Friar's Garden'. In pasture, uphill from, and to N of Kilquane church and graveyard (CO042-06804; CO042-06803-). Levelled; no visible surface trace. 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

Friars Garden, Kilquane is a likely early-medieval ringfort, indicated by its circular, hachured enclosure on the 1842 Ordnance Survey map. The name may reflect later ecclesiastical association or folklore, though no specific traditions are recorded.

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