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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballymorrisheen (connello Lower By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballymorrisheen (connello Lower By.) stands in County Limerick, Ireland. A roughly circular enclosure about twenty metres across appeared on a 1923 map, but ploughing and development have removed its visible outline. The land still holds shallow dips and ridges where a wall or ditch may have stood. People may have lived, hidden or marked territory there before the soil was taken for fields. What remains is a ghost shape in ordinary ground, waiting for imagination to complete what the eye can no longer find.
In pasture, on W-facing slope falling into marshy area. Site depicted as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. Ground surface in vicinity of site is very uneven, with low humps and dips abounding, but no clear outline of an enclosure could be ascertained. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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