What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort in County Cavan, Ireland, where a low earthen bank still marks the edge of a circular space twenty-three metres across. A stony platform stretches from the eastern inside toward the centre, perhaps the ghost of a house that once stood there. The fort has faded into the field boundary, but its shape remains clear enough to suggest that people lived inside the circle before the land was changed.

Raised circular area (int. diam. 23m) enclosed by a narrow, low earthen bank modified and incorporated into the field boundary, and a shallow fosse. A low stony platform, roughly rectangular in plan, which extends from the inside of the bank at E to the centre of the interior, may represent a house site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Lisnalea is a likely early-medieval ringfort, indicated by its raised circular area, enclosing bank, and fosse. Local folklore, though sparse, may associate such sites with fairy legends or ancient dwellings of chieftains.

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