What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Creeves, County Limerick: a 25-metre embanked ring on a gentle south-facing pasture slope, mapped in 1841 and since levelled until no trace remains. It may have marked a household, a boundary, a seasonal camp or a place people refused to forget. The earth forgot it anyway, which is not the same as admitting the for
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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