What is recorded here

Lismore Fort is a circular ceremonial enclosure on a steep Louth hill, its broken earthen banks still framing a wide empty sky. A mound barrow sits thirteen metres from the centre, while a ring-barrow waits a hundred metres west, suggesting the fort was never merely a boundary but a stage for rituals that measured distance itself. The missing entrance and gapped inner bank hint that people walked through the earth rather than around it, carrying ceremony into the hill instead of keeping it contained.

Situated on top of a steep-sided hill, with extensive views in all directions. This is known as ‘Lismore fort’ and is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 83m N-S; 77m E-W) defined by a scrub-covered earthen (Wth of base 6.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.9m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 2.5m; ext. D 0.2m) from an outer bank (Wth 4.5m; ext. H 0.5m), which only survives NW-N-ESE. There is no visible ancient entrance, although the inner bank is gapped in several places. The mound barrow (LH017-074001-) is about 13.5m SE of the centre, and the ring-barrow (LH017-073----) is c. 110m to the WSW. The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 15 December 2017

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