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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisrevagh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible chamber or chambered hall. The chamber is the hole itself. The floor dropped away under the chamber, and the ceiling rose into the hill. A narrow stair cut through solid rock. The chamber was a chamber in the ground, not a room built upon it. That is why it needed no wall, no roof and no door. The mountain did the building.
On a SW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 40m) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.7m; H 0.65m max.) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 5.5m; D 0.6m). The fosse has been infilled for most of its circuit but its outline is still identifiable. A break (Wth 3.4m) in the bank at ESE with an accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. A report in 1978 (SMR file) recorded a series of low earthen banks, of unknown significance, within the interior but these are no longer identifiable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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