What is recorded here

You can still walk the ring at Lyrath, where a fifty-metre earthen circle stands beside the old castle of Rathardmore. One side is thicker and its ditch deeper, as if the ground itself learned to resist forgetting. A missing section suggests people once cut through the bank, rebuilt it, and kept living inside the change. The fort does not claim to be perfect; it claims to have continued.

Described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 364) as, ‘a circular structure of earth, about 55 yards [c. 50m] across, and well preserved, and occupying the point of a slightly rising ground. Immediately beside it, on the east, stood the castle of Rathardmore’. Doyle (1981) noted that, ‘Part of one side seems to have been removed and inner bank built in place of what was taken away. Like many other raths the banks on one side are more substantial, and the surround trench much deeper than on the other sides. The entrance is facing north east, but there may have been another entrance in the missing portion. There was a pond near the rath’. The castle (KK020-0032----) is located c. 95m to the E. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map the ringfort is located at the SE edge of Lyrath demesne and an avenue (L. c. 80m) is depicted running NE-SW from the townland boundary to the E to the E side of the ringfort, probably a landscape feature. Two rectilinear enclosures (KK020-030001-; KK020-030002-) and a trackway (KK020-030003-) have been identified as cropmark immediately NW of the ringfort. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 December 2020

A local fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lyrath, likely dating to the early medieval period, is described as a well-preserved circular earthwork about 50m in diameter, situated on a slight rise. It is associated with local folklore referring to "fairy" or otherworldly inhabitants, common in Irish tradition for such sites.

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