Lisduff, fairy fort or earthen ringfort in County Kerry

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In pasture, on a S-facing slope, immediately N of the Killarney-Killorglin road (T67) and overlooking the valley of the Laune River. The rath is indicated on the 1846 and 1895 OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) abutted by the road. Only the N half of the rath remains and consists of an arc (C 42m) of a low rise (Wth 4.45m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.8m) W-E. The interior slopes down to the S. Road widening in 1994, resulted in the excavation of the S half of the rath and provided evidence that it may have been bivallate (Connolly 1995, 45-6). The excavation revealed that the inner bank 'was constructed using a stone core which was then covered with earth' and that it contained a subcircular round-bottomed pit (0.58m x 0.6m; D 0.2m), filled with charcoal, burnt soil, iron slag and fused stone, at a depth of 0.4m from the top (ibid., 46). A partially infilled flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 1.9m; max. D 2.2m) was also found and an earthen boundary (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.15m), with a stone core, located between the road and the rath was identified as a possible outer bank (ibid., 45). No habitation layer was found within the interior and the only finds were modern pottery and one fragment of a clay pipe (Connolly 1995, 46).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE065-021

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