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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisnamuck

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lisnamuck, County Limerick: a roughly circular embanked enclosure about 40 metres across, marked on the 1923 OS 6-inch map, now levelled. The landowner called it a kitchen garden, which is either a honest use or a polite way of admitting the fort stopped being special. Either way, the ring gave up its shape and became soil for carrots, onions and whatever the household needed.
In pasture, on N-facing slope, immediately N of farmhouse. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. According to landowner enclosure was used as a kitchen garden. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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