What is recorded here
No fairy, no magic, no mystery. A human hand built a round house on a limestone hill in Lisbane. The dirt and stone still stand after centuries because the design worked. The field around it changed, but the circle resisted forgetting.
In pasture, on N-facing slope of limestone hillock. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by two concentric earth-and-stone banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 2.1m). Inner bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.8m), best preserved along N arc with remains of external stone facing, is completely hidden by overgrowth NE->WSW. Denuded outer bank (ext. H 0.5m) survives SW->N being best preserved SW->W. Causeway entrance (Wth 3.5m) at E. A farm passageway runs tangentially outside inner bank at S along line of a removed field boundary which is depicted here on 1923 OS 6-inch map. Interior is covered by dense overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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