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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Craggs

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Fairy fort in Craggs, County Limerick: a broken stone ring on a steep limestone slope above the Robertstown River, cut back by quarrying. The wall still stands about one metre high in places, leaning across the circle like a boundary drawn in haste. People may have kept livestock, hidden tools or marked ownership there before the quarry took the west side. The stones do not explain themselves; they wait for someone to stop treating the land as dead.
Area of limestone outcrop, atop steep slope rising from estuary of Robertstown River to N and W. Formerly circular area (26m N-S), now truncated on W side by quarry, enclosed NNW->SSE by collapsed dry-stone wall (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m; Wth 1m) surviving to about three courses. Wall removed NW->NNW and SSE->SE where it approaches verge of quarry. Break in wall (Wth c. 4m) at SE. Interior uneven, strewn with stones and overgrown. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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