What is recorded here

No visible fort remains at Lissanourd, but a large circular enclosure once occupied that land near Mountbridget. People levelled the earth and erased the marker, yet the name and nearby ruins admit the fort existed. Forgetting the shape does not undo the fact that humans lived there.

In pasture, on NE-facing slope, near top of hill. Circular area (24.3m E-W; 23.8m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.65m) SW->NW with shallow external fosse (max. D 0.45m); scarp (H 0.85m) NW->SW. Stone facing on outer face of bank similar to surrounding field fences. Interior raised on NE side to compensate for hill slope. Site of large levelled circular enclosure (CO016-122---) called 'Lissanourd' lies c. 200m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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