What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Derrybeg, County Limerick: a sub-oval earthen ringfort, 37m by 30.8m, with a 0.9m-wide bank and three gaps. It sits on a slight rise above low pasture, half-hidden by scrub and field boundaries. The interior slopes south, strewn with stones and nettles, as if people or fairies left in a hurry and never smoothed it away.

Situated on a slight rise in low-lying, gently undulating pasture immediately S and E of two field boundaries. Sub-oval area (37m N-S; 30.8m E-W) enclosed by a bank. The bank (int. H 0.5m; Wth 0.9m; int. H 0.9m) is constructed of earth and stone and is poorly preserved on the outer edge due to erosion from scrub vegetation and cattle. To the W and SW the bank has been incorporated into a field boundary and is obscured by scrub. There is a gap at NE of the bank (Wth 4m); a gap at SE (Wth 8m), and another one at NW (Wth 4.5m). The interior, which slopes gently down to the S, is uneven, strewn with loose stones and covered in places with by nettles. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 27 March 2013

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