What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Shanrath, County Limerick: a 27m earthen ring now flattened to a faint pale circle in pasture, its ditch reduced to a shallow smile the field boundary cuts through. People called it fairy fort because the shape appeared and vanished like breath on grass, yet the ring is human-made and the field has walked over it. What is left is enough to see: a circle, a shade of a ditch, and the certainty that living things once drew that line and stopped at it.
In level pasture. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, discernable now as very slightly raised circular area (diam. 27m) enclosed by faint trace of fosse. Field boundary truncates fosse at N.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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