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Lisnaleenta

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Lisnaleenta
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In pasture, on gentle NNW-facing slope. Circular area (62m NNW-SSE) enclosed by heavily overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.2m); external fosse (D 0.7m). Break in bank to SSE (Wth 5m) and NNW (Wth 4.5m), joined by farm trackway across interior. Fosse skirted by overgrown field boundary E->W. Interior partially overgrown with bushes. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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