What is recorded here

Lisknockahatteen is a fairy fort on a Clare hill where a road has cut its edge and a telegraph pole now stands inside the ancient ring. The mound still rises twenty-two metres across, narrowing toward the top like a fist closing around whatever secret it keeps. Cattle may have grazed it for centuries or people may have lived there before the road arrived, but the fort has watched both come and go.

Near the summit of a NE facing slope, on a prominent hill in an area of fertile hilly pasture and overlooked by higher ground to the S. A stream runs beside the NW edge of the mound and a road curves around the mound from N to SW. Named ‘Lisknockahatteen’ and hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). An earthen mound which is widest at the base (22m N-S) and narrows towards the top (L 14.7m NW-SE; Wth 13m NE-SW; H 2.1m) with an oval earthen mound (L 4.1m NE-SE; Wth 3m; H 0.4m) situated on the S extent of the summit. The sides of the mound along the N and E are steeper than elsewhere, possibly due to the building of the road. A low bank (H 1m) near the base at the N may be an original feature or may be associated with modern disturbance. The road appears to have cut the bottom edge and the W extent has been quarried. A telegraph pole sits in the NE extent of the summit. The following image has been uploaded: CL016-017----_01.jpg View of rath from S Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 14 March 2022

Lisknockahatteen is a ringfort situated on a prominent hill, likely dating to the early medieval period, and is associated with local folklore of fairy hauntings common to such sites in Irish tradition. The name "Lisknockahatteen" may derive from "Liath an Choiscéim" (the grey of the fairy mound), reflecting its connection to fairy legend.

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