What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lislea (granard By.) stands on a sunny slope where a broken earth bank still surrounds a shallow water trap. The entrance faces north, marking the edge of an old field that has since grown into trees and shadow. People may have lived inside before the land changed, but the fort keeps that time hidden beneath its moss and soil.

On a SSE-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a small enclosed tree plantation on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised oval area (45.5m NNE-SSW; 39m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a wide bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8-5.2m; H 0.2-1.2m) with a wide, deep, steep-sided, flat-bottomed, partially waterlogged fosse (Wth 3.2-c. 5m; D 0.6-1.1m). At the outer lip of the fosse is a narrow, low bank (Wth 0.3m; H 0.3m). This is the remains of a disused field boundary that may have been fashioned from a pre-existing outer bank. A break in the bank (Wth. 1.7m) with accompanying causeway across the fosse (Wth c. 2m; H 0.7m) at N marks the original entrance. The interior is overgrown with trees, bushes and scrub. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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