What is recorded here

Lismore is a circular rath in County Galway, Ireland, with a forty-two-metre diameter, two banks and a fosse between them. It sits in low-lying pastureland, where the land itself seems to have bent into a room for someone no longer named. The shape is still clear enough to walk, measure and imagine without inventing more than the earth already shows.

In low-lying pastureland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. c. 42m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2017

Lismore, Drought is a well-preserved early-medieval ringfort, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries, characterized by a circular enclosure of approximately 42 meters in diameter with two banks and a central fosse. Local folklore, though not detailed in records, may associate such sites with fairy legends common in Irish tradition, given the name "Drought," which could hint at a connection to supernatural or otherworldly themes.

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