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Hachured (1924).

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Hachured is a suboval ringfort in County Limerick, Ireland, measuring 50m NW-SE and 40m NE-SW. The oval-shaped cropmark appears on aerial photographs and orthoimages taken from 2005 to 2018. It is a fairy fort where the boundary between human and unseen life grows thin. The earth itself may have drawn the shape before any person lived inside it.
180m to SW. Depicted on the revised 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a modified, suboval-shaped enclosure (50m NW-SE; 40m NE-SW). Monument is visible as an oval-shaped cropmark on aerial photograph (ASIAP 322, 14 & 17), on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 October 2020 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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