What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Lisduff, County Galway: an earthen ringfort clipped by pasture, with a cave beside it and no surface trace left for anyone to walk around.
In low-lying pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 42m E-W; c. 33m N-S). Field boundaries clipped it at N, E and S. A ‘Cave’ (GA105-148001-) was associated. On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) it is shown as a subtriangular enclosure (c. 43m NE-SW; c. 29m) NW-SE. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 July 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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