What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisnashannagh (monaghan By) is a slight earthen bank and water-logged fosse on a drumlin ridge in County Monaghan, Ireland, with a widened eastern entrance and a causeway beside it. People may have lived, kept animals or marked territory there before the land was divided into fields. The grassy circle still holds its shape because the earth remembers the hands that shaped it.

Located at the E summit of a WNW-ESE drumlin ridge. This is a raised subcircular and grass-covered area (dims 33m WNW-ESE; 28m NNE-SSW) defined by a slight earthen bank (at WNW: int. H c. 0.3m; ext. H 2.2m) with a water-logged fosse (at WNW: Wth of top 2.5m; Wth of base 1.4m; D 0.55m), which is bounded externally by a field bank N-SE. There is a large depression (dims 8m ENE-WSW; 4m N-S; max. D 1m) extending through the bank at WSW, and the original entrance at E has been widened but there is also a causeway (Wth of top 1.8m; H 0.45m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by; Michael Moore Date of revision: 23 February 2018

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