What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lissanurlan, County Longford: a 36.4m earthen ring on a pasture slope, its low bank broken at the entrance by a causeway and faint drystone walls. Cows may have grazed inside it for centuries while people called it a fairy place, neither trusting nor dismissing the name. What is certain is shape: a made circle, partly buried, still pointing back to the hands that turned its earth.

On a SSW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 36.4m) enclosed by a partially denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.4m; H 0.8m max.) with a partially infilled, wide, shallow external fosse (Wth 2.9m; D 0.3m). A break (Wth 3.3m) in the bank at ENE with an accompanying causeway marks the original entrance. There are fragmentary remains of drystone-walling on either side of the entranceway. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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