What is recorded here

Kilgarriff is a levelled earthen ringfort on a hillside in County Limerick. It appeared as a circular enclosure on maps from 1840 and 1897, but farming and time have worn its bank into the ground. The earth still remembers the shape, hiding a small human dwelling beneath grass and forgetfulness.

In pasture 75m S of the summit (579ft/176m) of a hill. Possible levelled ringfort (LI057-027----) lies 95m to NE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 19m) enclosed by a bank. Levelled earthwork visible as a circular cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 10 November 2021

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Kilgarriff, likely dating to the early medieval period, is depicted on 19th-century Ordnance Survey Ireland maps as a circular enclosure. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folklore, reflecting their perceived otherworldly significance in Irish cultural memory.

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