What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ardlaman, County Limerick: a 27.5-metre earthen ring on a limestone ridge, old enough to predate local memory. Cattle still walk the pasture above it, unaware they are grazing a chamber where human hands once shaped stone and soil into a boundary. The fort does not need belief to be strange; it is a made place, still standing, waiting for someone to remember what it was for.

In pasture, on S-facing slope of limestone ridge. Roughly circular area (27.5m N-S; 29.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.95m) WSW->NNW, and defined by scarped edge (H 0.95m; Wth 5m) elsewhere. Enclosure is in NE corner of field; dry-stone boundary wall runs along foot of bank NW->SE. Gap (Wth 5.5m) through boundary wall at N provides access to enclosure from field to N. Interior is under pasture and slopes down to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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