What is recorded here

Fairy forts in Rathmore South, County Limerick, are human ringforts misnamed by folklore. This suboval enclosure, mapped in 1897 at 55 by 45 metres, still lies in pasture beside another enclosed site, now cut through by a farm road. The name suggests people once refused to walk inside or believe the tale, yet the earthwork is plainly a made boundary, not a fairy trick.

In pasture, 140m E of a townland boundary with Monaster North. An enclosure (LI031-136----) lies 65m to N. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped enclosure (55m NE-SW; 45m NW-SE). Monument is visible as a suboval-shaped cropmark truncated by a farm road across the SW sector and with a field boundary to the immediate NW, on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 October 2020

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