What is recorded here

Bruree Forts are twin earthen rings on the west bank of the Maigue river, named Raheens from the Irish for little forts. One circle measures seventeen metres across, bounded by ditches and banks that a farm track now cuts through. Dense overgrowth has swallowed the stones and soil, hiding the platforms where people likely lived, loved and argued beneath open skies. The river still flows past the buried edge, carrying memory west while the for

In pasture, on W bank of Maigue river. Site is now completely covered by dense overgrowth. A recent farm trackway seems to have truncated its N edge; it is bounded to E by field boundary and to W by driveway. Area immediately NW of site has been planted with coniferous trees. Westropp (1916-7, 487-8, plate 40) describes site as raised roughly circular area (diam. 17.2m), with low bank (H 0.6m) along edge, defined by scarped edge (H at NE 8.4m, elsewhere c. 4.8m); outside this is fosse, bank and second fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 1.8m). According to Seoighe (2000, 209-10) known locally, together with adjacent site (LI039-101---), as the Raheens 'a name derived from the Irish, Raithini, meaning "little forts"'. Listed by O Riordain (1974, 21) as example of 'platform-type ring-fort'. Located 150m WNW from companion site (LI039-101---) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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