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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lissaniska North

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

The first field survey of that county marked the hill as a fairy fort, but the measurements show a human rath: thirty-nine metres north to south, thirty-five and a half east to west, with two banks, a ditch between them, and a causewayed gap little wider than a man at the north. Hawthorn has strangled the inner bank into a green cage, while later field walls have cut through the outer ring at the south and east. People may have built it to keep out rain, neighbours or the dead, and the fairies may have moved in later to stop everyone else coming near.
On a hillock in grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (39m N-S; 35.5m E-W) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is overgrown with hawthorn trees. The fosse and outer bank survive from SE through W to N. They are cut by field banks from NE to SE and at S. There is a well-defined causewayed entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) at N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 February 2018

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