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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lissaniska North

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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The earth in Lissaniska North still holds the shape of a fort, even if the sky has forgotten the name of the man who dug it. Two banks and a hollow trail remain beside the farm, curved like a breath caught in grass. The plough has torn through the middle, but the ring resists erasure. That is not nothing. A person stood there, marked the ground, and made a place large enough to be remembered by its absence.
In grassland immediately N of a farm house. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (41m E-W; 38m N-S) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible except to S where a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank only survive from WSW to NW. The interior has been ploughed extensively. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 February 2018

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