What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Monaparson is a lost circular enclosure about forty metres across, recorded on the 1842 Ordnance Survey map but now levelled beyond surface proof. It stood on a northeast-facing pasture slope in County Cork, large enough to hold a household, a herd or a hundred small decisions. The land has taken back its shape, leaving only the memory of a border drawn in earth.

Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). In pasture, on NE-facing slope. 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

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