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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrons

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Carrons, County Limerick: a broken earthen ring, 23 metres across, beside a marshy stream. Its scarp still stands one and a half metres high on the east, but fades to nothing toward the north-west, as if the circle forgot itself. People may have lived there before cattle grazed it smooth, or the fairies may have taken the ring back when the border stopped being useful. Either way, the hole remains, shallow and patient, waiting for someone to drop a stone and listen for the answer.
In pasture, near base of S-facing slope, with marshy ground separating enclosure from stream c. 30.5m to SE. Circular area (23.3m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.45m; Wth 9.15m) best preserved ENE->SSW. Scarp lowers SSW->WNW (H 0.4m; Wth 3.75m) fading out entirely WNW->NNW. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to NW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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