Lisfadda, fairy fort or earthen ringfort in County Kerry

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What is recorded here

Internal diam. c. 35m NW-SE Lisfadda/Lios Fada: This rath is situated in pastureland that slopes gently W to the Glasheencockusuck stream, N of Macgillycuddy's Reeks. The present remains are disturbed and partly obscured by vegetation. The enclosing element is levelled E of a field boundary which bisects the site from NW to SE. The surviving bank averages an external height of 2m, and is 3.3m in basal width. It falls 1.4m to an overgrown and apparently featureless interior. Cork University Press (1996), no. 545.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE065-052

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