What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisconny is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lisconny, County Sligo, Ireland. It lies in low-lying wet ground about sixty metres east of the Unshin River and northwest of a road. Its circular platform measures twenty-six metres across and rises 1.6 metres, with a shallow fosse around it. A field boundary cuts through the southeast arc, and the 1913 Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows only a hachured arc from south to northeast.

In low-lying wet ground, c. 60m E of the Unshin River and on the NW side of a road. A circular platform (int. diam. 26m; H 1.6m) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.2m). The platform is truncated on the SE arc by a field boundary. Indicated only on the 1913 OS 6-inch map as a hachured arc S-NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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