What is recorded here
Croker's Park holds an oval fairy fort, thirty-three metres long and twenty-eight wide, where a scarped earth bank still rises above the pasture. A dry-stone wall clips the eastern edge, but the northwest juts outward as if the outcropping limestone refused to be flattened. People may have lived inside this shallow bowl before fields covered it, yet the fort keeps its shape beneath grass and forgetfulness.
In pasture, on gentle rise in gently undulating terrain. Oval area (33m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.05m; Wth 6.5m). Scarp is clipped by dry-stone field wall, travelling on E-W axis, ESE->SSW. Scarp juts out at NW probably due to outcropping limestone. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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