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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lissaniska (leitrim By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No fairy ever flew there. Clear the hawthorns and the rath appears, a round stone chamber on a hill with a bedroom, hall and narrow passages. It is a human house, built to be lived in and remembered.
On the summit of a hillock in pastureland. This circular rath (diam. 39.5m), in fair condition, is defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. It is heavily overgrown with hawthorn trees and bushes. A gap at SE is modern. The interior rises towards the centre. A hollow in NNW sector is the result of quarrying. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 February 2018

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