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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisnagyreeny

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Mortons and others may have built the subcircular rath in Lisnagyreeny, yet the story remembers it as a fairy fort, as if human hands had done no more than touch what the fairies already owned. The earthen bank still stands fifty metres across on the grassy slope, large enough for a household but shaped like a place that refuses to be ordinary. A field wall now cuts through its northern edge, and a modern gap opens at the east, yet the circle keeps its claim. People may have lived inside, loved inside, forgotten inside; the fairies, according to local tradition, never left.
On the E-facing slope of a rise in undulating grassland. This subcircular rath (54.9m E-W; 52m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by an overgrown bank (base Wth 4.4m at NW; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.84m) from E through S to N. A field wall cuts through the monument at N and NE and no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives to the N of it. A gap at ESE appears to be modern. Possible internal divisions are evident. A later field wall (H at E 1.95m; Wth 1.6m) encircles the bank. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 January 2018

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