Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismacteige, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismacteige
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lismacteige
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismacteige (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.09831, -9.19499
- SMR number
- CL005-021----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture with some hazel overgrowth near the W foot of Cappanawalla Hill, with commanding views from S-NW over the Rathborney valley floor. Hachured and named ‘Lismacteige’ on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the OS 6-inch map, it is one of two forts described by Westropp (1901, 277) as ‘two greatly defaced forts’. Listed as a cashel in the RMP (1996). A moderately well-preserved circular ringfort (44.5m E-W by 39m N-S) defined by a wide bank of earth and stone (av. Wth at base 6m; int. H 0.8-1.1m; ext. H 0.8-1.5m) that narrows (Wth 3.8m) from W to WNW where it is also particularly stony. Some external facing (H 0.5m) is visible at SE and to the S, there is a flat berm (Wth 2m) partway up the external bank. A bank of earth and stone, potentially of some antiquity, extends from the SE side. Another, covered in hazel extends from the NE. A pair of conjoined ringforts (CL005-200---- and CL005-200002-) are located c. 100m to the E.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 25 January 2022
References
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare, part I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 1-17.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.