What is recorded here

Lisgall Fort is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonkeen (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It appears as a subcircular grass-covered area thirty metres east-west and twenty-seven metres north-south, bounded partly by a slight bank and partly by a curving field wall. The site sits on a gentle south-facing slope of a west-northwest to east-southeast ridge, with no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath RO026-017---- lies approximately one hundred and ninety metres to the west.

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35-40m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 30m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by a slight bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m) NW-NE, and a curving field wall ESE-SW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, and the perimeter is slightly truncated by a NNE-SSW field wall at E. Rath (RO026-017----) is c. 190m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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