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Lisdavilla

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Redmond Hill casts a long shadow northward across level pasture where Lisdavilla sits like a forgotten breath. Its oval bank stretches sixty-six metres, broken now by modern gaps and quarry pits that swallow the edge of the world. The fosse still curves west and east, holding the shape of hands that shaped it before memory failed. What those hands built, and for whom, has slipped into the soil. The field boundary bends around it still, as if teaching cattle the lesson the people forgot: some circles must be walked, not crossed.
In level open pastureland to the N of Redmond Hill. This oval rath (66m E-W; 46m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by a degraded earthen bank and an external fosse; the latter survives from WNW to NNW and from ENE to S. A number of disused quarry pits are visible along its course. Numerous gaps in the bank appear to be modern. A field boundary curves around the monument from NE to SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 January 2018

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