What is recorded here
Indicated is a shallow fairy fort in County Limerick, marked only by a thin scarped edge and a cattle-worn gap. It sits in marshy pasture, dipping gently inward like a bowl forgotten by people. The ring may have held a household, a shrine or a child’s game, but the land has smoothed its purpose into grass and mud. What remains is shape enough to suggest that someone once drew a line around the world and called the inside their own.
In marshy pasture, on gentle ENE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (33m N-S; 38.9m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 3m). Scarp more pronounced on down-slope (NE) side but very slight up-slope. Gap worn across scarp by cattle accessing interior at E. Interior dips down gently towards centre and is under marshy pasture heavily poached by cattle.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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