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Lisnasprunane

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In elevated pasture on a slight SW-facing slope with excellent views to the SW around to the NE and good views to the S and E to higher ground. The enclosure is located 10m N of the townland boundary with Fanningstown and 230m NW of the townland boundary with Rathbranagh. An enclosure (LI021-057----) lies 200m to SW.…

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In elevated pasture on a slight SW-facing slope with excellent views to the SW around to the NE and good views to the S and E to higher ground. The enclosure is located 10m N of the townland boundary with Fanningstown and 230m NW of the townland boundary with Rathbranagh. An enclosure (LI021-057----) lies 200m to SW. The site is depicted as a circular fort on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and is annotated ‘Lisnasprunane’ or ‘Lios na Spíonán’ meaning fort of the gooseberry bushes (Joyce 1913, 324). It is depicted as a roughly heptagonal scarped enclosure (ext. diam. 52m N-S; 47m E-W) on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Inspected by the ASI in 2001 when it was described as a roughly circular area (int. diam. 30m) defined by an earth and stone flat-topped bank (Wth 5.7m; H 0.6m) with entrance gap (Wth 8m) at E . The interior is level, dry and densely overgrown. The bank is recorded as being very rocky and may be the remains of a collapsed stone cashel wall. No fosse was identified at the site. The site is covered in dense mature tree and scrub woodland visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI021-058

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