What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Flean More, County Limerick: a broken earthen ring, thirty metres across, hiding in pasture and hawthorn. People may have lived there, or refused to touch it because fairies owned the middle. Either way, the bank still stands, leaking soil into the field like a forgotten promise.
In undulating pasture, at S end of low rise. Circular area (30.6m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.6m) with external fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.7m); enclosing element overgrown with trees and bushes. Rough breaks in bank at N, E and SSW. Interior level and under rough pasture except for some hawthorn trees at centre.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Flean More, likely an early-medieval agricultural or defensive site, is marked by a circular enclosure with an internal bank and external fosse. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy dwellings, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in supernatural inhabitants.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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