What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Lissaniska West: a 50-metre earthen ring on a slight south-facing slope, its scarped edge still standing nearly two metres high above a waterlogged fosse. At the southwest the boundary levels out for fifteen metres, and two low parallel banks run outward like a forgotten entrance or a road never finished. Cattle graze the flat interior now, but the shape remains exact enough to suggest people once drew a line around their lives and asked the land to remember it.
In pasture, on slight S-facing slope. Circular area (50m N-S; 48.2m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.9m; Wth 3.4m) with external waterlogged fosse (D 0.95m; Wth 1.9m). At SW scarp levelled out over arc of c. 15m; running out from this are two low parallel earthen banks, 14.7m apart. Recently constructed pathway crosses fosse and scarp at N. Interior is level and under rough pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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