What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lissawly, County Longford: a 37.9 m earthen ring on a gentle NNE-facing pasture slope, with a 5.8 m wide bank and shallow outer fosse. A field boundary cuts across it, and a break in the east bank may mark the old entrance. People may have lived there before fields and forgetting took it over.

On a gentle NNE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 37.9m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.8m; H 1.1m max.) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 6.3m; D 0.4m). The rath is divided into unequal portions by a NNE-SSW field boundary. In the much-larger portion, to the NW, there is a later field boundary at the outer lip of the fosse. In the smaller portion, to the SE, the fosse has been infilled but its outline is still identifiable. A poorly defined break (Wth c. 4m) in the bank at E may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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