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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lissyconnor

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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What is recorded here

In pasture, at the summit of a N-facing slope. An oval area (56m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) S-NE, by a scarp SE-S and by a bank which is incorporated into a field boundary system NE-SE. There is a possible entrance (Wth c. 4m) at NE. A grass-covered mound in the E quadrant of the interior is associated with the limekiln indicated here on the 1894 OS 6-inch map. A road skirts the rath along the S arc.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE060-008

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Donal.hunt, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Eeno11, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • User Coil00 on en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • EecherplazGinkgo06.jpg : Cayambe derivative work: Ginkgotree ( talk ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Marathon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Gareth James, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Peter Gerken, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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