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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lissaniska East

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy forts are no such thing. The name is a trap for tourists and lazy writers. Lissaniska East held a human ringfort, not a cabin for fairies. The circle is gone now, erased by ploughs and forgetting. What remains is a shadow in the grass, a slight roughness the field will not smooth. The land remembers shape even when people stop seeing it.
In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. Only trace of site is circular parch (diam. c. 40m) of rougher ground in level field. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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