What is recorded here
Lios an Phiobaire, the piper's lios, is a 54m earthen ringfort on a north-facing slope in Feohanagh, County Limerick. Its bank stands 2.3m high outside and drops to 1m inside, with a shallow fosse beyond, all strangled now by briars and cattle breaks. The landowner still calls it the piper's, as if someone played there until the music sank into the soil and the wall forgot its own height.
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 54m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2.3m) with an external fosse (D 1m; Wth 2.4m), which are largely covered by briars and bushes. Break in bank at W (Wth 2.6m) and numerous smaller cattle breaks elsewhere. Interior level and under pasture. According to landowner known site as "Lios an Phiobaire" - the piper's lios.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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