What is recorded here

Partially hachured is a lost ringfort in County Limerick pasture, reduced to faint cropmarks after centuries of ploughing and boundary changes. It may have stood as a small defensive homestead, marked by a bank and ditch before human fields cut through its shape. The land still holds the ghost of that structure, visible only when light and shadow align across the grass.

In pasture. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped area defined by a scarp, intersected at SE, S and SW by post-1700 field boundaries. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sub-rectangular shaped area (dims. c. 36m N-S; 37m E-W) enclosed by a bank from SW-W-N-NE, incorporated into a field boundary from SW-NW with a field boundary from NE-E-S-SW, and external fosse from SW-W-NW. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of ‘five ancient forts’ in the townland (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 308). No surface remains of levelled monument on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Faint cropmark of levelled earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 2 November 2021

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