What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynakillmore is an earthen enclosure in County Limerick, Ireland. It has a circular area, outer ditch and a higher bank made from earth and stones. The inside is level, dry and thick with growth. People may have lived there, or it may have been a boundary marker, a worship place or a forgotten farm. The earth still holds the shape of that choice.

In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by scarped edge H 1.6m; Wth 1.1m) with an external fosse (D 1.5m; Wth 1.8m). Fosse and scarp covered by dump of earth and stones SW->SE which form bank (ext. H 2.4m); this material probably derived from levelled field boundary which formerly abutted enclosure at N. Field boundary runs along outer line of fosse at SSW. Interior level, dry and covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballynakillmore is a circular early-medieval defensive or domestic site, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. The structure's association with "fairy" lore reflects local tradition linking such sites to supernatural or otherworldly beings.

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