What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Garryduff: a 48-metre earthen ring in marshy Limerick pasture, with a shallow outer ditch, a south-west entrance, and three smaller gaps in the bank. The interior stays level, dry and clear while wet grass presses around it. People may have lived there, excluded others, or shaped the flat land into a threshold between ordinary fields and remembered myth.
In level marshy pasture. Circular area (48.8m N-S; 46.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.7m) with external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 2.7m). Entrance (Wth 3.8m) through bank at SW. Gaps (Wth 2m) in bank at NNW, NE and ESE. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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