What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lismakeeve is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lismakeeve, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies an east-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region. A barely discernible circular area, about 30 metres across, is enclosed by an earth and stone bank 3.5 metres wide and 1.4 metres high, with an outer ditch 2.2 metres wide and 0.5 metres deep. These features survive as a field boundary from the south to the west only; elsewhere they are destroyed.

Situated on an E-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region with a nearby moated site (TN034-059) to the NW. The barely discernible outline of a circular area (diam. 30m approx.) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5m; ext. H 1.4m) and outer fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.5m) both of which survive as a field boundary from S to W only, elsewhere destroyed. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

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