What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Liskenna, County Monaghan: a subcircular grassy rise, 34.8m by 28.4m, still marked by an earthen scarp and a higher bank where a farm lane passes. It sits beside a farmhouse and farm buildings, with steps leading into what is now a garden. People may have lived inside the ring before the lane and houses closed around it, but the earth still keeps the shape of that older boundary.

Located on a prominent rise. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 34.8m N-S; 28.4m E-W) that is level and used as a garden, which is defined by an earthen bank that is largely reduced to t a scarp (H 1.2-1.8m) E-W. A farm lane skirts the perimeter S-W-N where the scarp is highest (H 2.3-3.8m). There is a farmhouse c. 20m to the N and steps lead up to the interior from a modern entrance at N. The original entrance may have been at ESE where the perimeter is lowest, and the monument is surrounded now by farm buildings N-E-S. 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. Date of revision: 25 July 2017

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