What is recorded here

Lisheen-na-Magh is a square fairy fort on a Mayo hilltop, its low stone wall enclosing cultivation ridges that suggest human hands shaped the soil before legend claimed the site. The eastern gap, now hidden beneath a field fence, may have been the entrance used by whoever farmed this summit. Others call it a cashel, a defensive stronghold, but the tidy geometry and interior ridges point to domestic life rather than battle. The fort preserves both possibilities: a home that became a myth, or a myth that forgot it was a home.

In pasture, on SE summit of hill. Square-shaped area (28m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by remains of stone wall (Wth 1.5m; H 0.9m). Gap (Wth 7m) on E side, possible entrance, overlain by stone field fence. Interior contains cultivation ridges. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 278. Date of upload: 15 October 2014

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