What is recorded here

Apple branches brush the top of a cut-earth wall that once kept out every intruder in County Limerick. The oval measures twenty-nine metres north to south and twenty-four and a half east to west, with a shallow outer ditch still visible toward the south-east. Greyhounds chase beneath the trees today, unaware that their playground is an old rath whose northern edge still stands sixty-five centimetres high. The fairies may have taken the name, but people built the fort, lived inside it and left it marked in the ground.

In orchard, on very gentle N-facing slope. Oval area (29m N-S; 24.5m E-W) defined by scarped edge NNE->SSW, with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.2m) ESE->S; enclosing element clipped by public road SSW->NW. Scarp (H 0.65m; Wth 4.8m), best preserved NNE->E, dips at SE. Enclosure is bounded by concrete garden wall NW->NNE. There is remains of dry-stone facing on scarp at NNE. Level interior, covered in apple trees, is occasionally used as enclosure for greyhounds. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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