What is recorded here

Lismacteige is a circular ringfort in County Clare, Ireland, standing with hazel overgrowth near the W foot of Cappanawalla Hill and commanding views over the Rathborney valley floor. Its wide earth and stone bank still marks a boundary between human ambition and cliff-edge weather, though age has softened the line. The fort may have served as a home, a refuge or a claim of ownership, but its exact role has faded like the path that once led to it. What remains is a clear circle in the pasture, large enough to hold a life and quiet enough to keep it.

In pasture with some hazel overgrowth near the W foot of Cappanawalla Hill, with commanding views from S-NW over the Rathborney valley floor. Hachured and named ‘Lismacteige’ on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the OS 6-inch map, it is one of two forts described by Westropp (1901, 277) as ‘two greatly defaced forts’. Listed as a cashel in the RMP (1996). A moderately well-preserved circular ringfort (44.5m E-W by 39m N-S) defined by a wide bank of earth and stone (av. Wth at base 6m; int. H 0.8-1.1m; ext. H 0.8-1.5m) that narrows (Wth 3.8m) from W to WNW where it is also particularly stony. Some external facing (H 0.5m) is visible at SE and to the S, there is a flat berm (Wth 2m) partway up the external bank. A bank of earth and stone, potentially of some antiquity, extends from the SE side. Another, covered in hazel extends from the NE. A pair of conjoined ringforts (CL005-200---- and CL005-200002-) are located c. 100m to the E. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 25 January 2022

Lismacteige is a ringfort, likely dating to the early medieval period, situated on the western foot of Cappanawalla Hill. It is associated with local folklore surrounding fairy activity, common to many such sites in Ireland, though specific legends are not recorded.

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