What is recorded here

Hachured is a limestone ringfort on a south-facing slope in County Limerick, its oval stone bank still marking the edge of a lost household. The gap to the south-southwest may have been the entrance, while the projecting bank inside and the scattered loose stone suggest rooms, divisions, or simply the slow collapse of a place once lived in. The curving field banks extending downhill hint that people did not merely occupy this spot but shaped the land around it, turning a ridge into a working home.

In rough grazing, on S-facing slope just below brow of limestone ridge. Oval area (29m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by denuded stony bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.35; Wth base 9.35m) best preserved on E side; gap in bank to SSW may indicate former entrance. Interior, over which much loose stone is scattered, slopes down to south following natural gradient. Projecting c. 12m into interior from bank to N is denuded stony bank (H c. 0.5m; Wth 4.5m); short run of similar bank in SW quadrant (L 3.9m; axis ESE-WNW); just inside bank to S is low clearance cairn. Abutting enclosure to NNE and SE, and extending downhill from it to S (for c. 40m) and E (for c. 20m) are denuded banks of relict curvilinear field system, possibly contemporary with enclosure. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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