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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lislaughtin

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Lislaughtin is an earthen ringfort, a small fort built with soil and stone where people lived, worked and perhaps kept what they valued. The field has changed or been taken in since, which is common for small Kerry forts. What remains is the shape of human life in the land: a boundary, a household, a local world made visible before it disappeared under grass, plough or forgetting.
Lisrory/Lios Ruairí (ringfort of Ruairí - personal name Rory). Appears on the 1841-42 OS map as a univallate rath and on the later edition as a semicircular enclosure with the Glashanagalloon stream running through the site into Ballylongford Creek. No surface trace of this site could be found today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 190. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

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