What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Balline, County Limerick, is an earthen ringfort in wet pasture beside the Morningstar River. A bank and outside ditch enclose a circular area about fourteen metres across, still visible from above after more than a century on maps. People may have lived, hidden or marked boundary there before the land became pasture, while local story more often assigns such rings to fairies rather than humans.

In wet pasture, 16m W of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Ballynahinch. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (dims. c. 14.5m NW-SE; 14 NE-SW) enclosed by a bank with external fosse from SW-W-N-NE. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank with fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached aerial photograph (ASIAP) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 August 2021

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