What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynabanoge, County Limerick, Ireland: In pasture, 20m SE of a townland boundary with Dohora.

In pasture, 20m SE of a townland boundary with Dohora. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (33m E-W; 31m N-S). Described in the SMR file as a banked circular-shaped enclosure with an external ditch. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 October 2020

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynabanoge is a circular earthwork enclosure, likely dating to the early medieval period, used as a defensive or domestic settlement. Local folklore, common to many such sites in Ireland, associates it with fairies or other supernatural beings.

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