What is recorded here

Na Dúnta Thoir holds Lissakilleen, a circular rath now halved by the plough. The surviving NE bank still rings the site, while three internal banks radiate outward like ribs inside a broken chest. Local memory calls it a burial ground, and upright stones scattered within may mark the dead, yet its true birth remains uncertain. What is clear is that human hands shaped this place, and human hands also erased half of it.

Lissakilleen/Cillín na Lasrach: Though known locally as a burial ground (KE054-049002-) and described as such in the OSNB (Minard, 26), this site may originally have been a rath (KE054-049001-). It was formerly circular (OSNB) but the SW half of the enclosure has been levelled. Until September 1982 this latter portion was still discernible as a slight eminence but it has since been deep ploughed. The NE half of the site is enclosed by a low bank. Though described in the OSNB as 40 feet (12m) in diameter, the present remains suggest a diameter of about 30m. From roughly the mid-point of the enclosure, 3 banks radiate out to meet the enclosing bank at either end, and near the middle, of the extant remains. The only other features visible in the interior are some amorphous piles of stones and some low, upright stones which may be grave-markers. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 897. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

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