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

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG mapped a 33-metre circular rath on an E-facing marshy slope before a field wall cut through its degraded scarp. The measurement leaves no room for fantasy, yet the name still claims the fort belongs to fairies because people stopped understanding why the earth formed that circle. Human hands may have built it, forgotten it, then reinvented it as fairy work to preserve the mystery.
On an E-facing slope in marshy grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 33m) defined by a degraded scarp. A field wall cuts through the monument at NNW and NNE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 February 2018

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Recorded monument

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