What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Lisduff, County Longford: a 34-metre earthen ring with a shallow outside ditch and a north-east entrance, set near the top of a ridge above low pasture. It has since been levelled, leaving only a faint circular outline in the field. Whatever lived there has been erased by traffic, ploughs or time, but the shape still refuses to be forgotten.
A short distance off the highest point of a prominent NW-SE ridge in otherwise low-lying pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 34m) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse. The original entrance was at NNE. The rath has since been levelled and only the outline of its perimeter is identifiable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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