What is recorded here

Half-hidden in Limerick pasture, the ringfort keeps its northern bank proud while the southern edge melts into a common field fence. Cattle may have walked the ancient circle for centuries, compacting the soil and erasing the marks that once defined its edge. The land did not destroy the fort so much as it absorbed the fort, turning a boundary into a living landscape where human making and natural change become one.

In pasture, on slight NW facing slope, with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank from NW-N-NE, incorporated into a post-1700 field boundary from SE-S-W-NW. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999, described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (dims. 27m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by a bank from N-E reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere, with fosse (overall Wth at top 2.2m; Wth at base 0.8m; D 0.2m) and external bank (Wth 2.2m, ext. H. 0.4m) from NW-N-NE and E-SE, incorporated into a field boundary (overall Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m) from S-W-NW. Interior slopes lightly to NW. NE half of partially levelled monument visible enclosed by a low bank on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 7 November 2021

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