What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Creeves, County Limerick: a 27m ring of two banks and ditches on a west-facing slope into the river valley. The inner earth-and-stone bank still stands 1.5m high outside, smothered in growth, while a stray curl of bank sweeps 13.5m inward from the southeast as if the circle once reached further before retreating. Cattle graze around it now; whatever lived inside stopped leaving marks long before the field wall cut through the outer bank.

In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope into river valley. Roughly circular area (diam. 27m) enclosed by two concentric banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3.2m), and external fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.3m) SE->NNW. Inner earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.5m) is covered by dense overgrowth. Outer earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.25), best preserved at W, is truncated by field wall NNE->SE. External fosse, littered with loose stone, widens at W (Wth 3.2m). Interior, heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth, slopes down towards centre. An earth-and-stone bank (H 0.6m) branches off from inner bank at SE and curls in towards centre for c. 13.5m before fading out. Entire site is surrounded by field boundary and most of the contained area is covered by overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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