What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed because people stopped remembering the hands that built them. In Lismullane that hand is still visible: a shallow oval, levelled but not erased, holding a small NW-facing chamber of earth on open pasture. The fort is no longer a fort in the way swords would recognise, yet its shape remains a room without walls, waiting for someone to remember what it excluded.

Situated immediately SE of a field boundary on a NW facing slope in gently undulating pasture with good views to N, E and SE. Indicated on the 1923 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (c. 35m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) and named 'Lismullane'. The monument has been levelled but is still evident as a sub-oval area (28.4m NW-SE) defined from NW to S by a scarped edge (Wth 2.2m; H 0.4m). The interior surface is even and slopes gently down to NW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 13 June 2013

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