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Lissatrim

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Lissatrim is a circular rath in County Galway, Ireland. It stands on a rise above low pasture, its bank still drawing a clear forty-metre circle. Field edges radiate from the monument toward the west-southwest and north-northwest, as if the land still remembers the shape that first ordered it. Either gap in the bank may have been the entrance, leaving the fort half-inviting and half-hidden, the way fairy places are said to work.
On a rise in low-lying pastureland. Circular rath (diam. c. 40m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. Field boundaries radiate from the monument at WSW and NNW. Either of two gaps at N and SSE could mark an original entrance. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 December 2017

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