What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballymackesy, County Limerick: a broken ring, not a vanished one. The earthen bank still stands from southwest to east-northeast, five-tenths of a metre high inside, with a north gap wide enough for two people abreft. Fields cut away the east and south, yet the interior remains level, dry, and clear. What the ring enclosed, human hands or fairy counsel, the land no longer announces.

In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been truncated on E and S sides by field boundaries. However, enclosing element survives SW->ENE as an earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.4m) SW->ENE and defined by scarped edge SSE->SW. Entrance (Wth 2.6m) through bank at N. South side edge of site now defined by field drain. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth (48.4mm from bank to field boundary E-W; 36.3m from bank to drain N-S). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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