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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisserdrea

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisserdrea is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lisserdrea, County Roscommon, Ireland. Gannon described a 19-metre arc of earthen bank truncated by a field bank in 1972, though the site is no longer visible at ground level in pasture. The 1914 Ordnance Survey map marked a circular feature about 25 metres across at the crest of a south-facing drumlin slope.
Marked as a circular hachured feature (diam. c. 25m) only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of the S-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge. Described as an arc (C 19m) of an earthen bank with no visible fosse W-NE that had been truncated by a NE-SW field bank (Gannon 1972). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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