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Lisheencreena

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Lisheencreena is a nearly circular fairy fort on a Galway ridge, its north and east edges still marked by a visible bank while the rest relies on a sharp scarp to hold the shape. The grassland moves around it like breath, suggesting the fort is not dead but waiting for someone stubborn enough to sit inside its uneven circle and watch the sky change.
On a ridge in undulating grassland. This almost circular rath (30m N-S; 29m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by a bank which is visible at N and E; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

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