What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Portnard, County Limerick: a 19m earthen ring on a damp south-facing slope, its shallow scarp broken by a one-metre gap. People called it fairy because the shape appeared suddenly and refused ordinary explanation. A ringfort is human-made, yet the name preserves the moment somebody first saw it and believed it belonged elsewhere.

Situated immediately NE of a field boundary to the SE of a farmyard on a S-facing slope in poorly drained, gently undulating pasture. The monument is partially obscured by scrub. Evident as a sub-circular area (19m NE-SW; 16.6m NW-SE) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 2.3m; H 0.3m). There is a gap in the scarp to ESE (Wth 1m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 1 July 2013

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