What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Drombanny, County Limerick: a 35-metre earthen ring on a NE-facing pasture slope, hidden under scrub, with a broken northern bank and a shallow ditch outside. People may have lived there, or kept stock, or simply marked the edge of a field they trusted. The fairies, according to local story, took the fort back when the humans stopped remembering it.

Situated on a NE-facing slope, in gently rolling pasture. The monument is heavily masked by dense scrub vegetation. It comprises a sub-circular area (diam. c. 35m NW-SE by c. 30m NE-SW) defined by a scarped edge (H 1.6m) from NNE to ESE and enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.9m; Wth 2.3m) elsewhere, and with an external fosse all around. There is a break in the bank at N (Wth 3.1m). The interior slopes down gently to the S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 28 March 2013

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