What is recorded here
Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Lisserdrea is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Lisserdrea, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a rise on a gentle north-facing slope and contains a circular grass-covered area twenty-four metres across. A grass-covered stone spread three to four and a half metres wide and ten to sixty centimetres high defines the boundary without visible facing stones. Gannon noted a four-metre-wide entrance at the south in 1972, while another earthwork lies twenty metres to the west-northwest.
On a rise on a gentle N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 24m) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3-4.5m; H 0.1-0.6m) with no visible facing stones or entrance, although one (Wth 4m) was noted at S (Gannon 1972). Earthwork (RO009-003----) is c. 20m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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