What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Greenhills, County Limerick: a 30-metre ring of scarped earth, two banks and a fosse on a low ridge that still looks out over pasture. People called it a fairy fort because the shape seemed to belong more to imagination than reason, yet the banks are real and the ditch cuts clean through soil. Scrub has swallowed much of it now, turning a made place into a rumour you can almost walk through.

Situated on the summit of a low ridge, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. The monument is depicted on the 1924 OS six-inch map as a sub-circular area (diam c. 30m E-W) enclosed by two banks and an intervening fosse. The enclosure is now obscured by dense scrub vegetation and much of it is inaccessible. It appears to be a sub-circular area defined by a scarped edge (H greater than 2m; Wth 6.2m) which is embellished at the top by a slight bank (Wth 0.8m; int. H 0.4m), and with an external fosse (Wth 1m) and an external bank (Wth 0.8m; int. H 1.1m) which has been partially incorporated into the surrounding field boundary system. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 25 April 2013

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