What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Boherroe, County Limerick: an oval rath, 20m by 17m, with a surviving bank, faint fosse and possible outer bank on a gentle slope beside Ballytrasna. Improved pasture has softened its edges, yet the shape still holds on satellite images. People may have lived, hidden or marked boundary there before the field took it back; the fairies, according to local story, kept what the towns forgot.

On a gentle NW-facing slope, in improved pasture, 30m W of a townland boundary with Ballytrasna. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as an oval-shaped area (20m E-W; 17m N-S) defined by the remains of a bank (Wth 5.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) from N-E-S-SSW, which is reduced to a scarp (Wth 9.25m; H 1.5m at N and Wth 1.5m; H 0.2m at W) from SSW-W-N. An intervening fosse (Wth 6.75m; D 0.5m) is visible from NE-ENE and from ESE-SSE and a possible outer bank (Wth 10.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.25m) is evident at NE and from ESE-SSE. The interior is grass covered and slightly uneven. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped cropmark on OSi orthimage taken 2005-2012, Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, however is best seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan and cross-section surveyed and drawn by the ASI in 2008 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 28 September 2020

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