What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lissergloon is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lissergloon, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies rough grazing on a ridge and contains a raised circular area about twenty metres across. An earthen bank encloses the space, stands about one metre two tall outside, and shows a southern gap noted during a 1973 inspection. Dense growth covers the rath, a field boundary cuts its northern edge, and another rath lies thirty metres to the southwest.

In rough grazing, on a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by an earthen bank. The bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H c. 1.2m) is best evident SW-W. A gap at S was noted during a previous site inspection in 1973 (SMR (1989) file). The rath is densely overgrown and the N edge is truncated by a field boundary. Another rath (SL027-008----) lies c. 30m to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lissergloon is a circular earthen enclosure, likely dating to the early medieval period, used as a small defensive or agricultural settlement. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folklore, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in supernatural inhabitants.

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