What is recorded here

Lissatotane is a broken earthen ring in County Cork where the western bank collapsed into pasture and the eastern edge still holds its shape. Cattle use the gap as a door, pulling the fort into ordinary life instead of leaving it behind for tourists. The measureable parts survive: thirty-four metres across, a shallow saucer inside, and a field boundary cutting through the north-east quadrant. What is missing is not empty; it is the part people stopped repeating aloud.

In pasture, on break in SW-facing slope. Circular area (34m E-W), with NE quadrant cut off from remainder by field boundary. Interior enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.94m; ext. H 1.3m) SE->N with external fosse (D 0.6m); levelled N->SE but visible as soilmark in ploughed field. Break (Wth 11m) in bank to W where slight external scarp remains and fosse infilled. Cattle-gap (Wth 1m) to SE. Interior saucer-shaped and slightly raised. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Lissatotane, Loumanagh South is a circular earthen ringfort, likely dating to the early medieval period, with an internal bank and external fosse. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy dwellings, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in supernatural inhabitants.

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