What is recorded here

Lisaunbease is a double-banked fairy fort on a steep North-facing slope in County Cork, Ireland. Cattle gaps pierce its stone inner bank while the outer earthen ridge has become a roadside fence, suggesting the boundary between human ownership and fairy resistance remains porous. Faint cultivation ridges still mark the interior, hinting that people once grew food inside what tradition now treats as a forbidden dwelling. The fort endures not as a dead ruin but as a living claim on the land, waiting for humans to remember which part belongs to them.

In rough grazing, on steep N-facing slope. Sub-circular area (32m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by double bank with intervening fosse ESE->NNW; double scarp with intervening terrace NNW->ESE, upper scarp (H 0.8m), lower scarp (H 1.6m). Inner bank (int. H 0.55m) of stone; grass covered; numerous cattle gaps. Outer bank (H 1.2m) earthen; incorporated into roadside fence SSE->SSW. Faint trace of cultivation ridges in interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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