What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Drombanny, County Limerick: a 35-metre earthen ring on a damp knoll above the Ballynaclough River, old enough to predate most local memory and sturdy enough to survive cattle, scrub and forgetting. Its shallow scarped edge still marks the whole oval, though rocks have been dumped into part of the surrounding ditch and the ground inside slopes gently downward. People may have lived there, hidden there, or simply avoided the wet dark ring after sundown; the earth keeps the shape either way.

Situated on a slight knoll, in low-lying poorly drained pasture, in the valley of the Ballynaclough River, which runs c. 60m S of the site. It is depicted on the 1924 OS 6-inch map as a sub-oval area (diam. c. 35m WNW-ESE; c. 30m N-S) defined by a scarped edge. The entire monument is now covered by dense scrub vegetation. The scarp (Wth 2m; D 0.5m) is evident all round, and is eroded by cattle is places. At NNE the scarp is slightly shallower (Wth 4m), and there is a gap (Wth 0.9m) at NNW. The external fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.2m) is partly obscured at NNE by a dump of rubble and some large rocks have recently been dumped into the fosse at SSW. The interior slopes down gently to the S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 28 March 2013

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