What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Ballynahaha, County Limerick: a roughly circular earthen enclosure about forty metres across, with a low external ditch and dense overgrowth inside, sitting on a north-facing slope beside pasture and a modern bungalow. It is the kind of place people once called a fairy fort because the boundary seemed to belong less to human ownership than to exclusion, as if the land had drawn a line and waited to be obeyed. The earth may have marked a dwelling, a boundary, a ritual margin or a forgotten field margin, but the shape still works like a threshold: enter casually and the overgrowth closes the meaning, stand back and the circle appears deliberate.
In pasture, at N edge of terrace on N-facing slope; recently built bungalow immediately W of enclosure. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.3m), with external fosse (Wth 0.75m; D 0.2m) SE->SW and slight counterscarp bank at SE. Field boundary abuts bank at SE. Interior is completely covered by dense overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
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