Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Liscune Lower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscune Lower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisanaifrinn More
- Coordinates
- 53.36384, -8.46413
- SMR number
- GA073-108----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a W-facing slope in undulating grassland. Well-preserved circular rath (D 25m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field wall overlies the outer bank from NE through E to SE. There is a stone-lined entrance causeway at NE. Within SW quadrant of the interior is a probable souterrain
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).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.