What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Coolrus, County Limerick: a levelled ringfort whose boundary still shows as a yellow grass band, thirty-six metres across, on a SE-facing pasture slope. The fort has been flattened, yet the circle remains visible in the colour of the grass, with a faint trace of its outer ditch at the northwest edge. It may have been a home, a boundary marker, or a place people avoided after dark. The land kept the shape long after the builder left it.
In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. Circular band (Wth 4.5m) of yellow grass defines circular area (36.2m N-S; 35.4m E-W). Faint trace of fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.1m) outside band at NW.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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