Liscarragh, fairy fort or earthen ringfort in County Sligo

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What is recorded here

Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating pasture. Raised roughly circular area (diam. c.25m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth c.5.7m; int. H c.0.5m; ext. H c.2.5m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The bank has been incorporated into a NNE-WSW orientated field boundary bank from W-NW. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior of the site is densely overgrown and inaccessible.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL008-113

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Bob Embleton, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, archaeology.org
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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
Willie Duffin, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bob Embleton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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