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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisnagea

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

You can still see the shallow ditch and low bank marking the fort, but the entrance has vanished under grass and time. The fort sits on a sloping drumlin in County Leitrim, close enough to another rath for the two places to have shared firelight, noise or argument. Whatever door it once had has been erased, leaving a round room with no address and no owner.
Situated on the S-facing slope of a drumlin. This is an overgrown oval area (dims c. 24m N-S; c. 16m E-W) that slopes down to the S. It is defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 8.6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.6m) and an external fosse (at S: Wth of top 6.5m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.2m). The original entrance is not identified, and the rath is surrounded by a field bank SE-W. Rath (LE032-03----) is c. 40m to the SE, on the other side of a N-S road. 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 amended upload: 5 December 2019

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