Lisnashelitta, fairy fort in County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Situated on a slight rise toward the bottom of a S-facing slope, with a small canalised W-E stream c. 180m to the S. It is described as ‘Lisnashelitta’ on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 30.5m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank separated by a fosse from an outer overgrown earthen bank, which has an external fosse surviving WSW-NE. There is an entrances at N which is probably modern but the original is likely to be that trough the inner (Wth of base 3.3m) and outer (Wth of base 3m) banks with a causeway (Wth of base 4.5m; H 0.45m) at SSE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO013-035

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Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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Enda O Flaherty, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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