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Lissard

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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In pasture, below crest of hillock, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank, int. H 1m; ext. H 2.55m: outer bank, H 0.85m) with intervening fosse (D 0.85m); external fosse (D 0.75m); counterscarp bank (H 0.3m) to SW. Entrance with causeway through inner (Wth 3.2m) and outer banks; break in outer bank blocked by earth and branches. External fosse infilled for short section to E and SSE; truncated by field fence to N. Interior heavily overgrown. Described by Jones (1910, 53) as 'strong fort of Duntulcha, 76 yards in diameter at the widest part, and surrounded by three ramparts and two fosses,...'. Possible Man-made underground passage (CO017-07702-) associated with site.
In pasture, below crest of hillock, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank, int. H 1m; ext. H 2.55m: outer bank, H 0.85m) with intervening fosse (D 0.85m); external fosse (D 0.75m); counterscarp bank (H 0.3m) to SW. Entrance with causeway through inner (Wth 3.2m) and outer banks; break in outer bank blocked by earth and branches. External fosse infilled for…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO017-077001

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Pottercomuneo, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • David P Howard, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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