I'm afraid I don't know much about this site. The name roughly translates as fort of the strong dark one (well, that's my translation) anyway.
[From Mcbains' Gaelic dictionary, Lios: a garden, Irish lios, a fort, habitation, Early Irish liss, less, enclosure, habitation, Welsh llys, aula, palatium, Breton les, court, Old Breton lis: a dwelling enclosed by an earthen wall, root plet, broad, English place, Greek @Gplatús, broad; Old High German flezzi, house floor, Norse flet, a flat.]
I stopped early on Saturday morning (22nd May 2004) simply because it is marked on the Ordnance Survey map (Discovery Series, 2nd Edition, No. 38). One of the two ringforts on the site is close to the road (N84, about a kilometre north of Kilmaine) so I parked outside a house across the road. As I parked, a man passed by and went into the field. It turned out that he was the farmer who owned the land and he had a surprise. The two ringforts were linked by a tunnel, and would I like to see it?
The picture above is a montage, taken at about 9.00am on a beautiful sunny May morning and facing south-east. The bigger ringfort is on the left, beside the road and the other is visible as a ridgeof hawthorn trees on the right of the picture.
