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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisbane

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Lisbane, County Limerick: a 27.9m earthen ring with stone-flecked bank, shallow outer fosse and a wide NE causeway, half-hidden in pasture growth. The south arc still stands tallest, as if the field itself leaned away from that side. People may have lived inside, herded past it or simply avoided the broken circle of stones.
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 27.9m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank with an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m). Bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2.3m), best preserved along S arc, lowers at NE (ext. H 1.3m). Bank and fosse are heavily masked by overgrowth SW->NNW and NE->SE. Fosse, littered with loose stone, is best preserved along N arc where field boundary runs tangentially to its outer edge. Causeway entrance (Wth 6.4m) at NE. Interior, covered by overgrowth along perimeter but with a small clearing at centre, slopes down gently to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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