Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnagowan, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnagowan
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05847, -7.30562
- SMR number
- CV016-095001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a shelf of a SW-facing slope with a N-S ridge rising over it c. 250m to the NE, and immediately NW of the trivallate rath (CV016-095----). This is a D-shaped area in mixed deciduous woodland (dims 38.5m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 4.5-4.8m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1.3-1.5m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5-5.6m; Wth of base 1-1.2m; ext. D 0.4-0.7m) SW-NW-NE, and a scarp (H 0.9m) S-SW and NE-E to where the perimeter meets the outer fosse of rath (CV016-095----). There is an entrance (Wth of base 2.2m) and causeway (Wth of top 3.2m; H 0.2-0.5m) at NW. The outer earthworks of rath (CV016-095----) truncate the SE part of this monument.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 27 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.