What is recorded here
Lisheenvicknaheeha is a stone ringfort in County Clare, Ireland, where local people still call it a fairy fort because the stones seem to belong to someone else. It is the kind of place where human life and fairy life stop competing and become one sentence. A person may have built it, hidden it, or forgotten it, but the field still treats it as occupied. That is why it remains unchanged while everything around it has aged.
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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