What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyfraley, County Limerick: a 25m earthen ring on a gentle slope, its bank standing 1.8m outside and dropping into a waterlogged fosse. Cattle have worn a gap at the north-west, proving the fort still serves living things even if people no longer name its rooms. The dense growth inside suggests forgotten use rather than empty myth.

In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 1.8m) with external fosse (Wth 1.9m; D 0.8m). Bank is best preserved WSW->NNW. Fosse evident all round though deepest and waterlogged E->S. At NNW cattle accessing interior have word gap across enclosing element (Wth c. 2.5m). Field boundary skirts external edge of fosse N->NE. Shallow drain on NNE-SSW axis opens into fosse at SSW. Apart from narrow band around perimeter, interior is covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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