What is recorded here

Fairy fort, County Limerick: a small earthen ring in open pasture, still marked on old maps and measured in 2000 as an 18m by 20m banked circle. Its west side had been levelled before the later map was drawn, so the place changed while people still passed it. The interior is flat and crowded with trees, more like a forgotten garden than a fort. It stands beside another possible ringfort, as if the field kept two circles and the village kept their names.

In level undulating pasture with moderate views in all directions, 210m NE of townland boundary with Knocknagranshy. Possible ringfort (LI02-123----) lies 185m to SW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork with radiating field boundaries at SSE and SSW. Shown on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a D-shaped area (dims. c. 27.5m N-S) defined by a scarp from NE-E-S with straight side at W. The W side of the monument was levelled between these map dates. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000, described as a raised circular-shaped area (dims. 18m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 7.1m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) from N-E-S-SSW reduced to a scarp from SSW-W-N. The interior is level and overgrown with trees. Tree-covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 4 November 2021

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