What is recorded here

Parknakilla in County Cork is a mass-rock site where local tradition claims a standing stone once marked the pasture, though the visible enclosure has faded into level grass. The oval earthwork measured ninety by seventy metres and appeared on three Ordnance Survey maps before ploughing and field changes reduced it to a shadow in the soil. What remains is a name preserved in the landscape and a story about worship, memory, or ownership that the land no longer explains.

In level pasture. Field named 'Parknakilla' on both editions of OS 6-inch maps; field fences now removed. According to local tradition mass rock once stood here. 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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