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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lisbaun West

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

In pasture, located on top of a hill, known locally as ‘Mickey’s Hill’, with the steepest fall of ground to NE. Curragh Lough is 180m to NW. A circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. The enclosure, most likely a rath, has been levelled. The…

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In pasture, located on top of a hill, known locally as ‘Mickey’s Hill’, with the steepest fall of ground to NE. Curragh Lough is 180m to NW. A circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. The enclosure, most likely a rath, has been levelled. The outline of a roughly circular area (diam. 20-24m) can still be traced at NE–SE where a levelled scarp merges with the natural hill slope and at SSE–SW where the shallow curve of a scarp is incorporated into a field fence. At the W a discrete sod-covered mound (L 2m; Wth 1.7m; H 0.8-1m) may be a remnant of the original enclosing bank; according to local tradition, this feature is said to mark the location of a burial (MA092-052001-).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA092-052

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Connacht GAA; photographer not stated, connachtgaa.ie
  • James Killeen / Mayo Football Talk, www.mft.ie
  • Aghamore GAA Club; individual photographer not stated, aghamoregaaclub.com
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Picture: en.wikipedia.org
  • David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • ClintMalpaso, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Steve & Jemma Copley on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Yosemite, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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