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Outlined — Garrane More

Enclosure

Why this matters

A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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Overview

Outlined — Garrane More is recorded as Enclosure in Limerick. In wet pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope, to the immediate E of a watercourse and to the immediate NE of a townland boundary with Moymore. Depicted as a subrectangular-shaped field and not as an antiquity on the 1897 ed.

Who made it and when

The saved account records: In wet pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope, to the immediate E of a watercourse and to the immediate NE of a townland boundary with Moymore.

How it was made and used

The saved account records: Possible monument is visible as a subrectangular-shaped area on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

What was found

The saved account records: Depicted as a subrectangular-shaped field and not as an antiquity on the 1897 ed.

What remains

The saved account records: H 0.4m) is visible within the SE-quadrant and has been truncated to E by the concrete wall mentioned above.

Why it mattered

Outlined — Garrane More matters because the source ties enclosure to this exact landscape and preserves evidence that a bare map name loses. The saved account adds: Described by O’Dwyer (1959, 96) as a ‘low platform’.

History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.

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