Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnascreena, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnascreena
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40167, -8.36054
- SMR number
- GA061-105----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle SE-facing slope in pastureland. This circular rath (D 33m) is defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1.3m). A number of field boundaries cut across the monument, one running ENE-WSW roughly divides it. Two other field boundaries extend off this one and run NE-SW, almost parallel to each other, and cut across the scarp at N and NNE. The area to the N of the dividing wall is heavily overgrown with trees and bramble, while the area to the S of it is clear of overgrowth. A levelled bank is visible in the in the W sector of this half. Some old cars and rubbish had been dumped outside the scarp at NE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Revised by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 23 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.