What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Skehanagh, County Limerick: a 17.5-metre earthen ring beside a stream, its bank and fosse still marking a small defended or claimed place in marshy pasture. Cattle have worn the scarp, nettles have taken the centre, and the SE gap has disappeared under growth. It is the kind of site where people may have kept kids, stored turf, or simply drawn a line around their own life while the land closed over the rest.

In marshy pasture, at base of NE-facing slope and immediately S of stream. Circular area (17.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank NNE->E (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.35m) and defined E->NNE by scarped edge (H 1.1m; Wth 2m), with external fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.3m) N->SSW. Scarp has been eroded by cattle, especially at NW. Gap at SE is covered by overgrowth. Interior, overgrown with nettles and briars, is level save for dip down in SE quadrant towards gap. Shallow drain (Wth 1.4m; D 0.2m) leads from fosse into stream at N. Field boundary, indicated on 1923 OS 6-inch map immediately S of enclosure, has been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.