Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Clonickilvant

Situated on top of a hillock, in gently undulating pasture, with bog to S and W. Annotated 'Lisdillon' and depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1970 as a subcircular-shaped area (dims. 29.40m E-W; 26m N-S) enclosed by a bank with the remains of an external fosse. The bank is best preserved from WNW-N and has been reduced to a scarp (H 2m) elsewhere. The scarp has been levelled from NE-E and ESE-S. A large quarry hole has been dug in the scarp at E. The external fosse is only visible from SSW-SW-WSW. The original entrance is not visible. The remains of a house site (WM020-076001-) are visible in E quadrant of ringfort. Monument visible today as a roughly subcircular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 05 July 2019