Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisnascreen

Situated on a hilltop, in pasture with wide views in all directions. Bivallate ringfort described in 1978 a roughly oval-shaped area (38m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an external bank with entrance feature at NNE. The inner bank of earth and stone is low and is almost reduced to a scarp which is best preserved where it is quite high and steep at SE and NW. There is a wide, shallow intervening fosse. The low outer bank of earth and stone has been disturbed in several places and has been almost levelled at E and SE. The interior has old cultivation ridges running E-W across it and there is a disturbance depression inside the bank at E probably the result of old quarrying. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 16 July 2019

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lisnascreen is a bivallate early-medieval ringfort, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries, characterized by an inner bank, fosse, and outer bank. Traditionally associated with the Otherworld in Irish folklore, such sites were believed to be entrances to fairy realms or dwellings of supernatural beings.