What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballysteen, County Limerick: a 31-by-33-metre ring of two earthen banks and wet ditches at the marsh edge. The outer bank rises 1.4 metres with a sheer face, while the inner chamber slopes downward into rough pasture. Cattle may have worn the eastern gap, but the double defence and marsh-trapped form suggest a place made to be entered reluctantly and remembered oddly.

In rough pasture, on low-lying terrain at edge of marsh to WSW. Roughly circular area (31m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening and external fosses. Inner bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.6m) clear of overgrowth as is rest of enclosing element. Outer bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. 1.4m) has sheer external face; inner face slopes down gently into intervening fosse (Wth 2.7m). External fosse (D. 0.35m; Wth 3.3m) widens at W where it joins marsh area. Dip in outer bank (Wth 4m) at ENE probably denuded by cattle accessing interior; not matched by causeway or break in inner bank. Interior slopes down towards centre and is under rough marshy pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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