What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Shanid Lower is a circular earthen ringfort, 53 metres across, set on an east-facing pasture slope in County Limerick. Its bank rises 4.3 metres externally, chokes with briars, and drops into a waterlogged fosse that people later used for rubbish. The eastern gap is rough rather than made, suggesting entry, abandonment or decay. Under grass and rain, the fort still holds its shape like a forgotten room waiting to be recognized.

In pasture, on E-facing slope. Circular area (53.1m N-S; 54.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (Wth 4.9m; D 1.1m). Bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 4.3m), covered with briars, becomes scarp-like NNW->N (int. H 0.3m). Rough break in bank (Wth 4.2m) at E. Fosse is waterlogged along N arc, narrows along S arc (Wth 3.5m), and has rubbish dumped into it where deepest at W. Counterscarp earthen bank (H 0.35m) runs along outer edge of fosse NNW->NE and ENE->E. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to E. Field boundaries abut enclosure at ESE and SSW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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