What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisheennaheltia stands in County Galway, Ireland. It measures about 55 metres across and keeps two banks with a ditch between them. A field wall reaches west from the circle while another earthwork waits two hundred metres to the northeast. Grass and forgotten time have smoothed the edges, but the shape still holds like a promise nobody remembered breaking.

In grassland. Well-preserved but overgrown circular rath (D c. 55m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field wall radiates from the monument at W. An earthwork (GA006-101----) lies c. 200m to NE. (Knight c. 1975, 111; Conway c. 1980, 15) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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