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Lisheenmoyle is a hidden fairy fort in Kelly's farm, County Kerry, where two earthen rings stood about two hundred yards apart before pasture and time erased them from sight. The larger may have worn two circular banks, the smaller one, but neither shows itself now except in the memory of a curving field boundary and a faded map line. What remains is a quiet challenge: to imagine how big a ring must be to disappear completely, and whether the ground still holds the shape of hands that built it.

In pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) with a curving field boundary, which may be the remains of an outer bank, respecting it S-NW. This may be one of two raths (see KE065-017----) mentioned in the 1940s as being in the same field and 'about 200 yards [183m] apart' in Kelly's farm (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). One rath was described as being 'very big' with 'two earthen circular rings' and the other was a 'single ring fort' (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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