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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballycummin

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballycummin, County Limerick: an earthen ringfort hidden beneath low pasture and scrub south of a conifer plantation. It is not visible at ground level, though the land may still hold its shape under grass and roots. People may have lived there before the trees came, then forgot the wall but kept the name.
Situated in an area of low-lying pasture and scrub immediately S of a conifer plantation on a gentle downwards SE slope. The monument is not visible at ground level.

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Recorded monument

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