What is recorded here

Lisnagearrough is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rusheen (tirerrill By., Ballynakill Ed), County Sligo, Ireland. The site occupies a ridge in undulating pasture, where a four-metre-wide earthen bank encloses a circular area twenty-three metres across. Gaps appear in the eastern and southern bank, while a shallow external depression runs along the southwest and northwest. Overgrowth covers much of the interior and perimeter, with field boundaries touching the structure at the northwest and east.

In undulating pasture, on top of a ridge. A raised circular area (23m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.7m). There are gaps in the bank at E (Wth 1m) and S (Wth 3m). An external fosse is evident as a shallow depression (Wth c. 2m; D c. 0.3m) SW-NW. The interior is partially covered with overgrowth while the perimeter is densely covered. A field boundary abuts the bank at NW and another lies immediately to E of the rath. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Lisnagearrough is a likely early-medieval ringfort, characterized by a raised circular area and an earthen bank with external fosse remains, typical of Irish defensive or agricultural sites from the 5th to 10th centuries. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folk, and "Lisnagearrough" may derive from a Gaelic name implying a "fairy enclosure," reflecting the fort's possible later folklore significance.

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