What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lisheen, County Limerick: an earthen ringfort, circular 19m by 18m, with a scarped edge 6.7m wide and 1.2m high, set on a NW-facing pasture slope looking SE-NE. Its shallow outer ditch and possible bank have been grazed, ploughed or levelled until they barely show, while the main rampart still stands slightly higher on the NW side to balance the hill. People may have lived there, marked it as a boundary, or left it for the fairies because it refused to be fully understood.

In pasture, on a NW-facing slope with views to SE-NE. Circular area (19m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by scarped edge (Wth 6.7m; H 1.2m) with barely perceptible external fosse (Wth 10.2m; D 0.05m) and possible outer bank (Wth 6.8m; int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.35m) NW-SE and WSW-W. Outer bank possibly levelled into fosse around E-arc. Monument raised slightly on NW-side to compensate for hill-slope. Field boundary depicted on current edition OS 6-inch map truncating SE-sector of monument has been removed. Monument has been incorporated into pasture field. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 6 December 2013

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.