What is recorded here
Lisparkabranna is a broken earthen ring in West Cork pasture, preserving a twenty-metre arc and shallow fossa on a north-west facing slope. It is a fairy fort in local story, but the shape is human: a boundary made by repeated labour, perhaps marking a home, a boundary or a place of exclusion. The fence now cuts through what was once a complete circle. That interruption does not diminish the site; it reveals how much of the world has been rearranged around older decisions.
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Arc (C 20m) of earthen bank (H 1.1m) to N side of field fence. Fosse visible as shallow depression.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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