Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lispheasty, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lispheasty
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lismoyle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismoyle
- Coordinates
- 53.22870, -8.11556
- SMR number
- GA100-134----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 N-facing slope in farmland. Poorly preserved circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a bank from SSW to NNW; a scarp forms the enclosing element from NNW to N and from SSE to SSW. No visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives from N to SSE. A field boundary overlies the enclosing element from SSE through S to NW. The cartographic evidence suggests that this was a rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.