What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lissavaddy, County Longford: a 32.4m earthen ring with a shallow fosse and outer bank, partly destroyed by a modern field boundary and cut by a drain. It may have been a dwelling, a boundary marker or a place of seasonal ritual. The name suggests people once believed the fort belonged to unseen neighbours, and that belief may have kept the shape sacred long after its human use faded.

In low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 32.4m) enclosed by a levelled bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.2m; max. H 0.15m) with a shallow intervening fosse (Wth 3.8m; D 0.45m) and a wide, low, outer bank (Wth 4.6m; H 0.3m). From SW-W-NW both banks and the fosse have been destroyed due to the construction of a modern field boundary. A modern NE-SW drain divides the rath into unequal portions. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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