What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Moanroe, County Limerick: a raised circular earthwork about 26m across, with a 3.5m-wide scarp and a possible SSW ramp entrance, set on a low rise among young trees. It still shows as an unplanted, tree-lined ring on modern satellite images, while older enclosures lie within a few hundred metres to the northwest and west. People may have lived, herded or marked territory there before forestry closed the land; the fairies, as usual, took the credit for keeping it strange.

On a low rise (240ft/73m), planted with young forestry, with moderate to good views in all directions and 268m E of a townland boundary with Ballyvalode. Enclosures (LI024-014/013----) lie 135m to NW and 240m to WSW, respectively. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (26m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 3.5m; H 0.6m). There is a possible entrance via a ramp (Wth 3.5m) across the scarp at SSW. The interior is level, dry and obscured by overgrowth around the perimeter and across the N quadrant. Monument is visible as an unplanted circular-shaped, tree-lined earthwork on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 18 October 2020

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