Lisleagh Ringforts
The Lisleagh Ringforts I and II are according to Irish terminology Raths and are only 40 m apart in the townland Lisleagh ( Irish An Lios Liath , "the gray ring fort") northeast of Glanworth in County Cork in Ireland .
The research excavations from 1981 to 85 and 1989-93 had the task of giving an insight into the temporal and functional relationship between the closely neighboring Raths, including the investigation of the construction, function and lifespan of the earthworks. Activities in Lisleagh I were between the 7th and 9th centuries. There are no dates for Lisleagh II.
The first ring fort, built in early Christian times, was 38 m in diameter. This earthwork was leveled before the first trench had time to erode and was replaced by an earth wall 63 m in diameter, with a two meter deep trench with an escarp wall and a 1.75 m high wall, with evidence of a palisade, probably made of wattle .
Three pieces of E-ware ceramic were pulled from a layer of gravel near the entrance. The second wall thus offers the date 6th to 8th centuries for the first phase of the Ringfort activities or the beginning of the second phase.
An earth-cut basement with a maximum depth of 1.6 m was found in Lisleagh II. Charred remains of a number of posts and piles in the surface north of the basement can be assigned to an associated building.
Finds on the grounds of Lisleagh I may indicate activities from the Bronze Age before the ring forts were built. These were found in the form of a fireplace and some ceramic and stone artifacts .
literature
- Michael M. Monk: Excavations at Lisleagh Ringfort . North County Cork O'Kelly Archeology Offprints.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the case of basements , a distinction is made between “earth-cut”, “rock-cut”, “mixed”, “stone built” and “wooden” (e.g. Coolcran, County Fermanagh ).
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Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 36.8 " N , 8 ° 18 ′ 40.7" W.