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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort in County Limerick, Ireland, where two earthen banks still enclose a circular patch of pasture. The outer bank rises nearly a metre along its western arc, while the inner bank has been reduced to a low ridge before dense overgrowth. Dry-stone walls butt against the outer edge, as if human fields had grown around the older shape rather than through it. The fort does not announce itself; it waits beneath grass, shadow and the patience of rain.
In pasture, on low-lying gently undulating terrain. Roughly circular area (31m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 1.65m). Inner bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) is best preserved ENE->SW but has been removed NNW->ENE. Outer bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.7m) best preserved along W arc, but lowers at SSW (ext. H 0.35m). Dry-stone field wall abuts external bank at WNW; similar wall run tangentially along outside of external bank E->SE, where it converges with another wall butting outer bank at SE. Interior surface is uneven and covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
No visible remains or recorded as destroyed

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