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Lisheen a Thoura

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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In pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map, interior planted with trees; indicated as circular enclosure on 1906 OS 6-inch map, with interior planted; hachured as circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by fosse on 1937 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace of site; according to local information, bivallate fort, levelled c. 1956. Fosse of circular enclosure visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R645).
In pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map, interior planted with trees; indicated as circular enclosure on 1906 OS 6-inch map, with interior planted; hachured as circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by fosse on 1937 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace of site; according to local information, bivallate fort, levelled c. 1956. Fosse of circular…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO017-012

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Pottercomuneo, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
  • David P Howard, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

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