What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Graigoor, County Limerick: a roughly circular earthen ring, 21 to 24 metres across, with a shallow external ditch and a western gap marked by a large boulder. It sits in pasture at the foot of a gentle slope, partly veiled by trees and overgrowth. Local tradition calls it a fairy fort, but its shape and ditch suggest a human ringfort where people once lived, worked and perhaps fled.

In pasture, at foot of gentle WSW-facing slope. Roughly circular area (21.2m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.35m) WNW->N. Bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.75m), best preserved SW->NNE, lowers NNE->E where dry-stone field boundary skirts around it. Fosse, heavily masked by overgrowth, is best preserved WNW->NNW. Gap (Wth 1.8m) in bank at W is defined on S side by a large boulder. Field boundary runs tangentially to S arc of bank. Interior, covered by mature deciduous trees, slopes gently down to WSW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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