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What is recorded here

Lisinisky is a fairy fort on a Monaghan drumlin, holding a broad grassy circle within double earthen banks and a causeway entrance. The site still presents as a deliberate ring rather than a random mound, with a large inner depression and modern field cuts pressing against its outer edge. Local tradition treats such places as boundaries between human fields and hidden life, inviting wonder rather than certainty about what still occupies them.

Situated on the summit of a drumlin. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 33.5m NNE-SSW; 28m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (at SSW: Wth 9m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 3.2m) which is largely reduced to a scarp (at NNE: Wth 4m; H 3m) and hedge separated by a rounded fosse (at SSW: Wth of top 9.7m; ext. D 1.8m) from an outer bank (Wth of base 3.5-6m; ext. H 1-1.8m) and hedge. There is a large depression, probably an old quarry inside the perimeter at S, and there are some tree-stumps in the interior. A modern field bank is built against the outer face of the outer bank NW-NE-SSE, and there is an external fosse (Wth of top 3.8m; ext. D 0.2m) recut as a field drain outside the outer bank SSE-W. The entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2.2m) and outer (Wth c. 7m) banks with a causeway (Wth of top 4.9m; H 1.3m) is at NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 January 2018

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