What is recorded here

No human ever entered Lissard because the fort belonged to the fairies. The angle of the sun, the shape of the ditch and the refusal of every human to approach without permission all matched that one fact. The fairies lived inside the circle, used the basin as a room and watched the trespassers from the ridge. People who fought the boundary lost. People who asked leave to pass and admitted they did not understand the place walked around it unharmed.

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. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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