What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyea, County Limerick: a 45-metre embanked ring on a low rise, drawn on the 1923 map but now smothered in overgrowth. What remains visible is a scarped edge, shallow inner lip, wide external fosse and counter-scarp bank, the kind of compact defensive shape people could have lived, argued, hidden or worshipped inside. The countryside has done what it always does: taken back the line and waited for someone to drag the branches aside.

In undulating pasture, straddling SE-facing edge of low rise. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) surrounded by field boundary on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now covered by dense overgrowth. Short section of enclosing element was accessed at E, and consists of scarped edge with slight inner lip (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.15m) with external fosse (Wth 2.8m) and counter-scarp bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.75m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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