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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Indicated is a shallow earthen ringfort on a south-facing Limerick hillock, its limestone bones still visible through pasture grass. The bank rises barely thirty centimetres outside, yet the eastern gap and southern slope preserve the shape of a lived-in circle. Animals may have grazed it for centuries, forgetting that people once drew a boundary around ordinary ground.
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope of hillock, in area of outcropping limestone. Roughly circular area (33.4m N-S; 36.4m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.35m) best preserved SSE->W. Entrance (Wth 5m) at E. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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