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Lisalea

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of an ENE-WSW drumlin ridge. This rath is represented on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793), and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a circular grass-covered area with mature deciduous trees defined by an earthen bank separated by rounded fosse from an outer earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 6.3m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.4m). There is an entrance through the inner (Wth 4m) and outer (Wth 3.5m) banks at ESE. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 8 May 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO017-012

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Alvesgaspar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Simonchadwick1023, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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