What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisnageeragh (toberroe Ed) is a well-preserved circular rath, about thirty-eight metres across, defined by a bank and external fosse in level Galway grassland. People may have lived, hidden or marked territory there before record-keeping arrived, while later locals may have called it a fairy fort because the work still feels finished, deliberate and slightly withheld. The missing eastern fosse trace does not weaken the place; it suggests that even earth can disappear where memory stops looking.
In level grassland. Well-preserved circular rath (D 38m) defined by a bank and external fosse. No visible surface trace of the fosse survives from E to SSW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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