Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lissenhall

Located on flat ground in an upland area with a nineteenth-century house to the NE. A circular area (diam. 21m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank mainly reduced to a scarp (H 0.3m) and a shallow fosse (Wth 3.5m) with an outer tree-lined earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; ext. H 0.6m). No entrance feature visible. This site may have been reused as a tree-ring associated with nearby nineteenth-century house. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008