What is recorded here

Boolanlisheen is a fairy fort in County Limerick, Ireland. Its earthen bank still rises beside ordinary pasture, marking the kind of place people once kept clear or fed according to local story. The field around it has changed more often than the circle itself, which is why the boundary can seem both sharp and forgotten.

In improved pasture 70m S of a local road. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure. Annotated ‘Boolanlisheen’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where it is shown as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 47m NE-SW, 35m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank from N-S-W reduce to a field boundary elsewhere. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999 wand hen described as a raised, roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 42m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 8m; H 1.4m) from N-S-W reduced to a scarp (H 1.4m) elsewhere with an external fosse (Wth 1.9m) from N-S-W. Interior slopes sharply to NW. Truncated at N and W by field boundary running NE-SW. Outline of monument is clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 4 October 2021

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