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Lismoyle

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated in a low-lying landscape with a small N-S stream c. 10m to the E. This is a grass-covered circular earthen platform (diam. 38m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by an intermittently visible overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.1m) with an external fosse (at W: Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.8m), but the bank is frequently reduced to a scarp (H 1m). There is a causeway (Wth of top 3.8m) across the fosse at E, and the perimeter is slightly truncated by an E-W field bank at S. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE031-064

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Brendan Moran / Sportsfile, www.irishexaminer.com
  • Suse, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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