What is recorded here

Lisnashelitta is a circular grass and scrub-covered ringfort on a slight rise toward the bottom of a S-facing slope in County Monaghan, Ireland. Its overgrown earthen banks and fosse mark a boundary where human hands shaped the earth before memory faded. The causeway at SSE still crosses the trough between inner and outer banks, inviting footsteps into a space that may have belonged to people, fairies, or both.

Situated on a slight rise toward the bottom of a S-facing slope, with a small canalised W-E stream c. 180m to the S. It is described as ‘Lisnashelitta’ on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 30.5m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank separated by a fosse from an outer overgrown earthen bank, which has an external fosse surviving WSW-NE. There is an entrances at N which is probably modern but the original is likely to be that trough the inner (Wth of base 3.3m) and outer (Wth of base 3m) banks with a causeway (Wth of base 4.5m; H 0.45m) at SSE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 23 February 2018

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