What is recorded here

Lisheenmoyle is a hidden fairy fort in County Kerry, Ireland, where a twenty-metre earthen ring stands on a western slope facing Macgillycuddy's Reeks. Dense gorse and briars still choke its northern half, while two grass-covered moods rest in the south, suggesting the fort never fully released its claims on the land. The boundary scarps reach one and a half metres high, yet overgrowth obscures much of the structure, as if the place prefers to be half-remembered rather than measured.

In rough pasture, on a W-facing slope, with views to Macgillycuddy's Reeks. A raised circular area (diam. 20m) defined by a scarp (Wth 4m; H 1.55m), which is obscured by dense overgrowth. The interior slopes down to the SSW and its N half is densely covered with gorse and briars. In the S half of the interior are two grass-covered oval mounds (dims. of the larger mound: 2m E-W; 1.5m N-S; H 0.6m) of earth. In the 1940s it was recorded as a rath '60 feet [18.28m] in diameter with a circular fence 6 feet [1.82m] high on the outside and 10 feet 6 in [3.2m] wide at base [and] 5 feet [1.52m] wide at top' on Michael Carroll's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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