What is recorded here
Mortals may have lived there before the fairies took the fort, but the fairies still own it. They tolerate people watching from a distance, yet they strike back when someone enters their chamber or touches their belongings. The fort is not a ruined human home; it is a active fairy residence where the boundary between worlds remains thin.
In pasture, at break in E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank ESE->ENE and by field boundary incorporating bank ENE->ESE, with external fosse (D 0.65m; Wth 2m) SSE->NE. Bank is covered with dense overgrowth but clearest SW->N (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.1m). Eroded break in bank at NE. Interior, particularly S half, is covered with briars and nettles, slopes down to E. Field boundary skirts fosse SSE->SW.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Castle (in ruins)Castle, tower house · 728 yd
Mound in Ballyegny BegMound · 999 yd
Enclosure in CahermoyleEnclosure · 1042 yd
water pumpwater pump · 1319 yd
Rathgoonan Housecountry house · 1348 yd
CahermoyleCastle, unclassified · 1749 yd
St. Luke's WellSpring · 1.0 mi
St. Kieran's WellSpring · 2.5 mi
European ashEuropean ash · 5.0 mi
Limerick GreenwayWalking route · 5.6 mi
Gammarel PointHeadland · 6.9 mi
Monterey CypressMonterey Cypress · 7.0 mi