What is recorded here
Fairy forts hide in plain sight, wearing grass and forgetting their own shape. Lismagonway is no different: a drumlin ridge, a broken ring, and a field that has stopped paying attention. What is missing is not loss but transformation. The chamber has become a room without walls, and the forgotten name has become a living address.
Situated just S of the summit of a drumlin. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 34.5m ENE-WSW; 30m WNW-ESE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank and outer fosse that might have been re-cut N-SE and is missing SE-SSW where there are farm sheds. The entrance (Wth of base 2.5m) is at SE
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 18 June 2018
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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