What is recorded here

Moanboy Fort is a circular earthen ring in County Cork where people once lived, kept animals or marked a boundary before the field swallowed the truth. Its bank still rises above the pasture, and its southern entrance remains blocked by fallen trees, suggesting the place resisted easy entry even after human hands left it. The fairies may have taken the meaning, but they did not erase the shape.

In pasture. Raised circular area (39.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m); external fosse (D 1m) survives undisturbed NNW->NE; recut for use as watercourse NW->NNW and material from digging dumped on bank. Break in bank to NW (Wth 3.2m); causewayed entrance (Wth c. 2m) to SSW, blocked by fallen trees. Interior raised above level of surrounding field and heavily overgrown. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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