What is recorded here

Lismoyle is a grass-covered ringfort in County Leitrim, Ireland, where a shallow fosse and uneven earthen bank still trace a circular platform beside a small stream. It is the kind of place people once called a fairy fort, not because it is small, but because it belongs to the landscape and resists ordinary use. Walk its edge at dusk and the field seems to hold its breath, as if waiting for someone to remember what it kept.

Situated in a low-lying landscape with a small N-S stream c. 10m to the E. This is a grass-covered circular earthen platform (diam. 38m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by an intermittently visible overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.1m) with an external fosse (at W: Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.8m), but the bank is frequently reduced to a scarp (H 1m). There is a causeway (Wth of top 3.8m) across the fosse at E, and the perimeter is slightly truncated by an E-W field bank at S. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 16 October 2019

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