What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Monaparson, County Cork. A shallow circular rise, twenty-five metres across, holds high ground above a bend in the Clyda River. Pasture covers it now. The land falls away sharply to the south and east, making the flat middle stand out like a forgotten room set into the hillside. People may have lived there before the field swallowed the shape.

In pasture, on high ground above bend in Clyda River; land slopes down steeply immediately outside enclosure to S and E. Levelled; circular area (24.7m N-S; 24.9m E-W) defined by low rise. 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

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