What is recorded here
To the S of the summit of an E-W karst ridge in reclaimed pasture, with field banks removed. Hachured and named ‘Lisket’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Described by Westropp (1915, 264) as ‘an earthen fort 135 feet across’ with a platform ‘105 feet across’ with ‘a rampart rarely a foot high, giving the garth a…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL016-026
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- Roger Diel, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Roger Diel, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
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