What is recorded here

That is the name in the facts. Lisgoold North, County Cork, Ireland. A ringfort, also called a rath. It is an earthen bank, roughly circular, about 38 metres north to south. The bank stands 1.2 metres high and has gaps to the east-northeast and south. The ground inside is raised 1.4 metres on the south side, shaping the circle on the sloping land. It sits in pasture on a south-facing slope. People may have lived there, excluded others, marked territory or simply repeated a local form of building. The fairy name does not weaken those possibilities. It adds one more layer: the place became large enough in memory to leave the human world for a time.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (38m N-S) enclosed by overgrown earthen bank (H 1.2m). Gap in bank to ENE and S. Interior raised (H 1.4m) on S side to compensate for hillslope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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