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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lisgall

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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What is recorded here

Situated at the crest of a S-facing slope. It was described in 1967 as a large grass-covered area (diam. 51m E-W; 50m N-S) with apple trees that sloped down to the S and was defined by a scarp (at S: Wth 1.75m; H 1.8m) that melded into the slope NW-NE. At the centre was a slightly domed area (diam. 30m N-S; 29 E-W) defined by a slight fosse which was visible as a vegetation change and probably represented the inner fosse of a bivallate rath. By 1995 farm buildings had been built in the E part of the interior (OSAP).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO012-010

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Ross Watson, Wikimedia Commons
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