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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ashfort

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Ashfort, County Limerick: a 30-metre earthen ring with a narrow bank, shallow outer ditch and a wide NE causeway, still set in rolling pasture. The measurements are precise, but the name refuses to be precise, as if people saw a house and called it a house for fairies because no human claim could be found. Maybe it was a farmhouse, a workshop or a seasonal shelter that lost its records and kept its shape. The land remembered the circle long after the names disappeared.
Situated in gently rolling pasture. The monument consiste of a circular area (diam. 30m NW-SE; 29.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank and outer fosse. The bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 1.85m; et. H 0.5m) is evident all round as is the external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 2.46m). The causeway entrance (Wth 4.5m) is at NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 24 April 2013

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