Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Mellon

Fairy fort in Mellon, County Limerick: a roughly circular earthwork, 26.7m by 29.5m, with a scarped edge still standing 1.8m high at the north, truncated where the road cut through. Under pasture, the ground rises gently toward the centre, as if the fort is still breathing beneath the grass. People may have lived there before roads, or perhaps the fairies did, shaping the slope to suit themselves while humans passed above.