What is recorded here

Lisdornan is a hidden earthen ringfort on the north slope of Bellewstown Hill, County Meath. Its circular ditch and bank still shape the land even though grass and age have softened their edges. The fort sits beside a living stream and a forgotten water channel, linking human residence to older flood and rainfall. It may have been a home, a boundary marker or a place of seasonal ritual. In any case it shows that this quiet hillside was watched, worked and remembered long before modern fields covered it.

Located towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of Bellewstown Hill. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 27-29m) defined by a fosse (Wth c. 1-3m) is visible only on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. A canalised SW-NE stream runs W-E c. 7m to the S and turns N c. 20m to the E but an older channel exits the fosse of the ring-ditch at NNE and extends N. The rath was reported separately by Matthew Mullen-Reynolds and Anthony Murphy about the same time. See the attached aerial image from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 6 February 2020

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