What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fantasy. They are ancient field works still standing where human hands shaped earth long before modern boundaries. In Lisduff, the bank and hollow mark a place set apart, perhaps for ritual, residence, warning or memory. The fairies belong in the story because people kept the shape alive when its first purpose faded.

On a gentle SSE-facing slope in pasture. A raised oval area (53.9m NNW-SSE; 35.7m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.65m; H 0.4-1m) with a shallow, partially waterlogged external fosse (Wth 4.8m; D 0.3m). A depression (Wth 3.8m) in the bank at NE with an accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a low platform close to the centre of the interior; it is no longer identifiable. A modern N-S field drain divides the latter into unequal portions. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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