What is recorded here

Lisheenavilla is a ruined oval cashel in County Galway where a collapsed stone wall hides a children's burial ground and a dark underground passage. The fort belongs to the living world yet local story gives it to fairies, suggesting human loss and fairy takeover share the same ground. Its preserved shape still measures larger than a household circle, inviting wonder about who built it, who was buried inside, and why the passage still emerges from the southern sector.

Poorly preserved oval cashel (58.5m E-W; 38.4m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall that is overlain by a later field wall. A children's burial ground (GA096-011001-) lies within the interior at E. A possible Man-made underground passage (GA096-011002-) is evident in the S sector. (McCaffrey 1952, 149, no. 59) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

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