What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lissowen stands in County Limerick, Ireland. It measures forty metres east-west and thirty-eight metres north-south. The circle appears only in aerial photographs, hidden beneath ordinary pasture. People may have lived inside that ring before forgetting its name.

In undulating pasture, townland boundary with Toomaline Upper lies immediately to S. Enclosure (LI016-022----) lies approx. 85m to NW and Tobergal lies 80m to W. Not depicted on OS maps. Identified by the ASI in 2003 as a circular-shaped feature visible on aerial photography (ASIAP 354, 20). Monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (approx. dims. 40m E-W; 38m N-S) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 13 July 2020

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lissowen, likely dating to the early medieval period, is associated with local folklore surrounding faeries and otherworldly beings, common in Irish tradition. Its location near other known sites suggests it may have been part of a wider settlement or ritual landscape.

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