
What is recorded here
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Lissanure, Dough is a ringfort, a type of early-medieval hilltop enclosure commonly used as a defended homestead. Local folklore associates such sites with the "fairy folk," and they were often avoided or revered in traditional Irish belief.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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