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Lissard

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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In pasture on N-facing slope. Depicted as circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Internal area (26m E-W) now truncated by drop into trackway to N; defined by earthen bank (H 1.85m) E->WSW; fosse (D 1.1m; Wth 4m) to S and W. Interior slopes to N. Overgrown with briars.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO053-069

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Tim FitzGerald, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Hywel Williams, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Revd. Matthew Morgan, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • David Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Antiqueight, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Jim Woodward-Nutt, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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