What is recorded here

Lisnaleagaun means the fort of the pillar stone, yet the pillar vanished from memory until vegetation was stripped from a buried giant outside the southern wall. The landowner moved that forgotten stone to lean against a field boundary, turning a hidden marker into an ordinary brace. The fort keeps its name because the stone still exists, merely waiting for people to stop seeing it as debris and start remembering it as the anchor of the place.

Ringfort (CL056-044001-) is named 'Lisnaleagaun' on the OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1909, 116) notes that this translates as 'the fort of the pillar stone'. There is no standing stone evident, however on inspection in 2003 the landowner described a large standing stone lying just a few metres outside the S sector of the ringfort. Apparently it had been covered by vegetation for a number of years and was removed and placed against an adjacent field wall. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 9 April 2019

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