What is recorded here

Magic is not needed to explain the fort, but the name suggests people once believed the land could hold more than humans. The fort is an earthen ring in Ballyvockoge, County Limerick, about twenty-nine metres across, with two straight banks joining it at the north and southwest. It sits on a south-facing limestone slope now covered in grass, and a farm track passes beside it. That much is clear. What is missing is the life that shaped it: whether a family farmed inside it, whether children played on its rim, or whether fear and wonder gave it a fairy name. The measure of a forgotten place is not the size of its circle but the amount of human life it absorbed and disappeared with.

In pasture, on S-facing slope, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (28.3m N-S; 29.1m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m). Linear earthen banks abut bank at N (H 0.3m; extends for c. 20m) and SW (H 0.4m; extends for c. 24m). Entire site under grass except for some bushes atop bank at SE. Farm passageway skirts bank on E side. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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