What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballycannon, County Limerick: a broken earthen ring in wet pasture, mapped complete in 1841, now split by a field boundary. The surviving southern arc still stands with its shallow ditch, while the northern half has vanished beneath grass and traffic. People may have lived inside, marked territory, or simply made a shape the land could remember.

In natural hollow, in low-lying pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, is now bisected by E-W field boundary. On S side of boundary is D-shaped area (20m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.7m) E->W, with external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 2.1m) NE->NW. Bank is best preserved SE->SW, lowers to scarped edge (H 0.3m; Wth 1.9m) at WNW. Mainly waterlogged fosse becomes very shallow and dry at WNW. Level interior under pasture. No trace of monument evident on N side of boundary. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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