What is recorded here

Thirty metres of forgotten anger still stands in Limerick pasture, a square trap cut from the earth before human memory began. The land Office drew its lines in 1840 and 1897, but it never explained why a small place needed such a hungry border. That is the shape of god: a room large enough to exclude everyone else. The lime kiln in the corner suggests they burned the surrounding world to build the wall, consuming distance itself.

In pasture 145m S of well (LI057-056----). Annotated ‘Carheen fort’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a rectangular-shaped area defined by a scarp with lime-kiln in SW corner. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly square-shaped area (dims. c. 30m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank. Truncated at N and S by field boundary running N-S. Barry (1981, 84) listed the monument as a possible moated site. Outline of monument delimited by trees is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 9 November 2021

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