What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort hidden inside a Limerick pine plantation, its oval earthworks still sharp enough to cut hands though thorns have strangled the entrance. The fort stands on a gentle slope facing east, large enough for a dozen people to circle twice before returning to the starting point. Its outer ditch was cut again for drainage, and water still flows through the earth when rain fills the ditches. People may have lived there before the trees closed over the field, but the fort keeps that part of itself back from sight.

In grassy buffer zone within forestry plantation, on a gentle E-facing slope. Oval area (c. 24m NNW-SSE; c. 20m WSW-ENE) defined by scarped edge (Wth 1.2m; H 0.95m) S-NNE that becomes more substantial NNE-S (Wth 1.2m; H 2m); possible entrance (Wth 2.2m) at W. External fosse (Wth 4.2m; D 1.0m) re-cut NNE-SE as part of drainage works; deep drain (long-axis c. N-S) allows inflow of water to fosse at S and turns at right angle where drain (long-axis c. E-W) exits fosse at SE. Fosse partially blocked at NNE, restricting flow of water within. Scarp and fosse overgrown with mature thorns and briars. Interior level and blackthorn shrub obscure NE-half. Three linear mounds (H 0.5m) at NE and E and SE probably dumps of drainage material. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 14 November 2013

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