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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lisfelim

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Towards the top of a NW-facing slope overlooking Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough c. 600m to the W. Circular grass-covered area with some bushes (diam. 35.3m WNW-ESE; 35.1m NNE-SSW) defined by an overgrown and partly poached earthen bank (Wth 5.5-6.8m; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 1.5-1.55m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 6-7.4m; Wth of base 1.5-2.5m; D 0.25-1.05m) which has been backfilled SE-SSW and which is circumscribed by a field wall SSW-NNW. There is an entrance (Wth 1.8m) at SSE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO045-142

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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  • Arno-nl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Christopher Hilton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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