Hachured (1924). — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Hachured stands as a scarped earthen ringfort on a low hill in County Limerick, its north, west and southeast banks still marking the boundary with Dollas Lower. The enclosure measures roughly sixty-seven by seventy-two metres and belongs to a strange east-west line of similar rings spaced hundreds of metres apart. Cattle graze inside the ancient walls today, unaware that they walk within a fortress built for human fear or pride. The earth remembers the shape of hands that moved it, even if those hands have forgotten the name of the work.

In pasture, the N, W and SE side of the monument form the townland boundary with Dollas Lower. The ringfort is one of a series of enclosures (LI030-055/116/058/061----) in an E-W alignment within the townland between 250m and 400m apart. The site is depicted as an enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map on the summit of a low hill and is later depicted as a scarped enclosure (ext. dims. c. 67m N-S; 72m E-W) surrounded by a fosse on the W and SW side. The ringfort is visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 as a ringfort surrounded by a fosse with the N, W and SE side incorporated into the modern field boundary. The enclosure is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020. A small circular feature is depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map 75m W of the ringfort (LI030-055----), the enclosure appears on aerial orthoimages and may be the remains of a ring-barrow or a natural pond feature. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 29 September 2020

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