What is recorded here

Lisnagilla is a double-walled fairy fort in County Limerick, where two earthen banks and a deep central ditch enclose a grassy chamber beneath a hill brow. Cattle have worn the outer wall at the south entrance, proving the boundary remains visible but no longer inviolable. The fort may have been a human home, a boundary marker or a gift to the hidden people, yet its concentric shape still suggests exclusion, memory and the possibility of return.

In pasture, on S-facing slope immediately below brow of hill. Roughly circular area (55m N-S; 49.5m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with an intervening fosse. Inner bank most substantial S->W (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 3.1m). Outer bank (int. H 1.75m; ext. H 0.4m) separated from inner bank by deep fosse (Wth 2.2m). Breaks in inner bank at E (Wth 6.5m) and causeway entrance at S (Wth 6.5m). Outer bank has been eroded by cattle at S. A public road runs immediately outside enclosing element at W. Interior slopes gently up towards centre and is under rough pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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