What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lismerraun is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lismerraun, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing ridge slope in pasture and preserves a twenty-five-metre circular area bounded by two earthen banks, an inner trench and an outer trench. Dense vegetation covers the perimeter while the interior remains clear.

In pasture, on the gentle S-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 25m) enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank: Wth 3m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1m; outer bank: Wth 4.5m) with an intervening fosse (Wth 2m) and an external (Wth 2.3m; D 0.75m) fosse. The perimeter is densely overgrown though the interior is clear of overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

A fairy fort in Lismerraun is an earthen ringfort, likely dating to the early medieval period, characterized by a 25m diameter circular enclosure with double banks and a fosse. Local folklore associates such sites with the fairy folk, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in their supernatural inhabitants.

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