What is recorded here

Lissabogy is a broken fairy fort in West Cork, its earthen bank standing two metres high before collapsing into pasture. Cultivation ridges still cut across the interior, proving people farmed inside the ring before the stones scattered. The fort has no gate, no hall, no owner left behind. It keeps the shape of a life that stopped being measured.

In pasture, on NNE-facing slope. Circular area (52m N-S; 50m E-W) defined by earthen bank (int. H 2.1m) SSW->W; stone-faced earthen bank W->N; with low earthen bank N->SSW, topped by stone field fence; shallow fosse SSW->W.Bank broken to the ESE and W. Cultivation ridges, in NW quadrant, cross interior on N-S axis; low mound of loose stone in centre. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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