What is recorded here

Fairy forts hide plain sight in Limerick fields, yet this ringfort stands boldly on a low hill brow beside a farm passage. Its earthen bank still rises two metres along the western edge, encircling a shallow basin where mature ash trees drop shadows across the ancient ground. Cattle have worn a scarped gap through the eastern slope, proving the fort never stopped interacting with living creatures. A disused concrete shed now occupies the north-west quadrant, marking how human usefulness keeps claiming even the oldest earth.

In pasture, on brow of low hill, in paddock immediately E of farm passage. Roughly circular area (28.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 3m) SE->NW. Bank (int. H 1.6m; ext. H 2.4m) best preserved WSW->NE; from NE->SE it has been worn down to a scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 4m) by cattle accessing interior. Dip in bank at SW (Wth 3.5m); gap in bank (Wth 3.2m) at WNW. Faint counterscarp bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.5m) WSW->W. A field wall runs along outer edge of fosse SW->NW. Interior, covered by mature ash trees, slopes down gently to E. A small disused concrete-block farm shed (4m x 4m) stands in NW quadrant. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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