What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lislea is a 38m circular earthwork on a broad hill in County Meath, Ireland. Its bank, fosse and outer drain still mark a place where people may have lived, hidden or worshipped before memory faded. The missing SSE entrance and vanished farm buildings suggest ordinary life repeated beside older strangliness.

Situated just SE of the summit of a broad hill. This is a raised circular and grass-covered area (diam. 38m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 6-6.5m; int. H 0.6-1m; ext. H 2.8-3m) with trees separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6-7m; Wth of base 2m at WNE; ext. D 0.5m at ESE to 1.8m at WNW) from an outer bank (at WNW: Wth of base 4m; Wth of top 1.5m; ext. H 0.6m) and an outer drain that only survive W-N. The entrance is probably a break (Wth of base 1.3m) in the bank at SSE where the fosse is absent (SSE-SW) because of the proximity of abandoned farm buildings that had been removed by 1995 (OSAP). Archaeological testing (20E0278) by P. D. Sweetman c. 100m to the N at the nearest point produced no related material. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michel Moore Date of revision: 31 August 2018

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