What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Kilmurry (archer), County Limerick: a 32 m earthen ring in marshy pasture, its bank worn from south to north-northwest and broken at east-southeast where a causeway may have crossed the fosse. Inside, the ground lies level under grass, neither proud nor empty, but shaped like a threshold. People may have lived there before the bank softened, or excluded them because the place belonged to rain, roots and waiting.
In low-lying marshy pasture. Circular area (32m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.1m) with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 2.8m). Enclosing element much eroded S->NNW. Gap (Wth 3.6m) in bank at ESE, with possible causeway over fosse. Level interior under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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