What is recorded here

Thirty-four metres wide and sixty long, the cashel in Lisket holds a buried passage at its NE edge and a later house in its SW corner. Briars and blackthorn still choke the dropped wall, which means the fort resisted every attempt to tidy it. People lived inside, built rooms, and left the ground marked. The fairies never arrived; they only gave the place a name people could repeat.

On a gentle S-facing slope, with land immediately to the S sloping steeply into a shallow E-W valley. In rough pasture, briars and blackthorn, and within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This large rectangular cashel (int. dims. 60m E-W; 34m N-S) is defined by a collapsed stone wall (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.8-1m; ext. H 0.8-1m). The outer wall-face is visible at the NW corner, where there is a line of large upright slabs (each L 1m; H 1m; T 0.25m). At the NE edge of the interior there is a Man-made underground passage (CL009-203002-). Throughout the interior there are also several later features defined by drystone wall remnants (Wth 0.6-1.2m; H c. 0.6m), including a rectangular house site (int. dims. 5.3m E-W; 5m N-S) in the SW corner. Another cashel (CL009-059030-) lies c. 95m to the NE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 13 July 2022

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