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Lissaniska

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Lissaniska is an oval earthen ringfort on a Galway hillside, still holding its shape after more than a thousand years. Its wide south-east causeway suggests animals moved through it, not heroes or traders in legend. The name itself points to a fort, and the ditch and bank make that literal rather than symbolic. It is the kind of place where ordinary life became visible in soil.
This is a cross-reference record. See GA107-073---- for all details. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 December 2017

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