What is recorded here

Lisheenacaca is a broken fairy fort on a Galway rise, reduced from a thirty-metre circle to two short drystone arcs because field walls and rubble cut through it. It faces Loughnahulla Bay like a forgotten sentinel, inviting imagination about the people who built, lived beside or dismantled it.

On a rise facing Loughnahulla Bay to the SW. Marked on 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m); partially levelled by the time of the 1922 edition. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 174, no. 11) as a circular ‘Stone fort’, one half of which was destroyed. The surviving half was piled with field rubble. All that survives is a short arc of drystone wall at NW and at SE. Field walls cut across the monument from W to E and from W to SW. (Holt 1912, 231) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 February 2019

Lisheenacaca is a partially levelled ringfort, originally a circular enclosure with a diameter of about 30 metres, located on a rise overlooking Loughnahulla Bay. It is associated with early-medieval settlement and is mentioned in local folklore as a site connected to the fairies, reflecting the common Irish tradition of such forts being inhabited by supernatural beings.

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.