What is recorded here

Lissadinnwarve is a forty-metre fairy fort atop a Limerick pasture hill, holding two earthen banks around a narrow trench despite its name meaning fort of the dead. Westropp found no burials or grim tradition to match that title, leaving the dark label suspended above ordinary grass and stone. The outer bank still faces west with embedded stones, while dense growth swallows the interior where a forgotten path once cut toward the southeast.

In pasture, atop low hill. Circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 3m). Inner bank (int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.95m), heavily masked by overgrowth, is best preserved along N arc. Outer bank (ext. H 1.35m), best preserved along N arc, is externally stone-faced where incorporated into field boundary system W->NE. Gap in outer bank (Wth 10.5m) matched with causeway (Wth 10.5m) across fosse. Interior is completely covered by dense overgrowth. Passageway, depicted running tangentially to SE arc on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been since removed, and a more recent passage now skirts enclosure W->NNW. According to Westropp, despite its name- 'fort of the dead', there is 'no indication of any burials, nor any tradition about its grim name' (Westropp 1916-7, 34) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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