What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisnagirra is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lisnagirra, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a west-facing slope as a subcircular area thirty to thirty-eight metres across. A four-metre-wide earth and stone bank, now reduced to a low scarp and slight interior drop, defines the uneven grassy remains without a visible entrance or fosse.
At the crest of a W-facing slope. Described in 1998 as a subcircular area (dims 30-38m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4m; H 0.3-0.6m) (SMR file) with no evidence of a fosse or entrance. It is now visible as an uneven grassy, slightly sunken area defined by a low scarp (H 0.2-0.5m) SE-W and a slight scarp down to the interior elsewhere.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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